Quote: Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive -- you are leaking.
Author: Fran Lebowitz 1951-, American Journalist
Quote: You're only has good as your last haircut.
Author: Susan Lee
Quote: Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone
Author: Sisters Of Mercy
Quote: What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Author: Alanis Morissette Canadian Singer
Quote: A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fatade of his appearance.
Author: Iris Murdoch 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Author: Rosie O'Donnell 1962-, American Talk Show Host, TV Personality, Comedian, Actress,
Quote: Neglect of appearance becomes men.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: When disposition wins us, the features please.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: First appearance deceives many.
Author: Phaedrus c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer
Quote: Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Author: Phaedrus c.1-?, Macedonian Inventor and Writer
Quote: All things are becoming to good people.
Author: Proverb
Quote: The best mirror is an old friend.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
Author: Gaelic Proverb Sayings of Gaelic Origin
Quote: A little man often cast a long shadow.
Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Chins without beards deserve no honor.
Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin
Quote: People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
Author: Robert Redford 1937-, American Actor, Director, Producer
Quote: We see things as we are, not as they are.
Author: Leo Rosten 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist
Quote: No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Appearance rules the world.
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
Author: Tom Sharp
Quote: How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Author: Robert Southey 1774-1843, British Author
Quote: I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Author: Robert Southey 1774-1843, British Author
Quote: Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies
Quote: Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Trust not to much to appearances.
Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 1922-, American Novelist
Quote: I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
Author: Christopher Walken 1943-, American Actor
Quote: The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Author: Daniel Webster 1782-1852, American Lawyer, Statesman
Quote: Appearances are deceptive.
Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
Quote: Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Author: Aesop 620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist
Quote: Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.
Author: Diane Arbus 1923-1971, American Photographer
Quote: Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Author: Arthur Ashe 1943-1993, African-American Tennis Player
Quote: Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.
Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: Think not I am what I appear.
Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman
Quote: You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Author: Herb Cohen
Quote: Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Author: Cindy Crawford 1966-, American Model, Actress
Quote: My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis 1958-, American Actress
Quote: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Author: Richard C. Cushing 1895-1970, American Roman Catholic Cardinal
Quote: The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''
Quote: You are only what you are when no one is looking.
Author: Robert C. Edwards
Quote: Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went ''Oooh.''
Author: Laurence Fishburne
Quote: He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Things are seldom what they seem.
Author: W. S. Gilbert 1836-1911, British Librettist
Quote: If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer
Quote: First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.
Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Author: Oliver Herford 1863-1935, American Author, Illustrator
Quote: There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
Author: Don Herold
Quote: Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: God loveth the clean.
Author: The Koran c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible
Quote: Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Author: John Wesley 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism
Quote: It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit