Appearances Quotes

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

~ Douglas Adams

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.

~ Nancy Freund

I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.

~ Will Advise

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

~ Charles Yu

She had told Kazan that she was bored with the roles she was playing because so many of them had been basically the same kind of empty-headed characterization. She wanted nothing ore than to challenge herself with more complex parts--and also wanted others to think of her as being more than a caricature....Anytime she had an opportunity to broaden her mind, she wanted to take advantage of it.

~ J. Randy Taraborrelli

I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.

~ Sherri Rifkin

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

~ Enid Blyton

Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom covers a clean skin. If you look as if you had slept in our clothes, most men will jump to the conclusion that you have, and you will never get to know them well enough to explain that your head is so full of noble thoughts that you haven't time to bother with the dandruff on your shoulders...Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

~ George Horace Lorimer

If some musicians put half as much effort in to the business side as they do their outer look and appearances, they could be twice as far.

~ Loren Weisman

They looked more like day laborers than seamen.

~ Erik Larson

My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.

~ Liam Perrin

You'll never make it out there. You weren't made for South Pole adventures. Flora gave her an icy look. I think I know by now what I was made for.

~ Chris Kurtz

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

~ Kellie Elmore

Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

~ Tehmina Durrani

I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.

~ Shaun Hick

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

~ Dashanne Stokes

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

~ Chris Campanioni

Any love that is solely based on physical beauty, is a stranger to longevity.

~ Hafiz

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion, respect and a timeless love.

~ Angelica Hopes

There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.

~ Ellie Lieberman

I am not what you see.I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would it be like to live as a spider, having people shriek and jump and throw a shoe at the very notice of you?I have tasted both―looks of desire and repulsion.How sad it is that we judge a life by such a trivial thing as appearance.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Another vampire pushed her way through the crowd to stand at hisside—a pretty blue-haired Asian girl in a silver foil skirt. Clary wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones. Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.

~ Cassandra Clare

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remembered my little brother, Allyn, had appeared so innocent and angelic when he slept--similar to Kerrick. It must be a survival tactic. If Allyn hadn't looked so sweet, we would have killed him while he slept. He had been pure evil when he was awake--similar to Kerrick.

~ Maria V. Snyder

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask, he is well-known everywhere in his true colors, his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

~ Molière

When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

The matron glanced at the old man and suppressed a smile. “He is absolutely miserable.” “I enjoy miserable. It gives one a contrast to all the delectabilities of life. But is he housebroken, inpala? He is rather rumpled. He will look well on my ship, but will he wash well? Do professors fray as a general rule? I will not have my ship looking ragged.”“They do tend to fade after a few years of hard use.

~ Michelle Franklin

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

~ Joseph Conrad

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.

~ Neil A. Hogan

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

~ Gerald Morris

You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

~ Rodney Ulyate

We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( Happiness blowing in the wind. )

~ Erik Pevernagie

All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?

~ Thomas Ligotti

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance—your very identity—is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are

~ Thomas Beatie

As she grew older, Maddy discovered that she had disappointed almost everyone. An awkward girl with a sullen mouth, a curtain of hair, and a tendency to slouch, she had neither Mae's sweet nature nor sweet face. Her eyes were rather beautiful, but few people ever noticed this, and it was widely believed Maddy was ugly, a troublemaker, too clever for her own good, too stubborn - or too slack - to change.Of course, folk agreed that it was not her fault she was so brown or her sister so pretty, but a smile costs nothing, as the saying goes, and if only the girl had made an effort once in a while, or even showed a little gratitude for all the help and free advice, then maybe she would have settled down.

~ Joanne Harris

Did anyone care for poor Cinderella until her fairy godmother took her in hand? Did anyone look beyond the ragged clothes and sooty face? Did anyone see the unshed tears and the poor, tired face?Obviously not. Appearances matter.

~ Gita V. Reddy