Quotes about appearance

Appearances are deceptive.

— Aesop

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

— Aesop

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.

— Diane Arbus

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.

— Arthur Ashe

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

— Henry Ward Beecher

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.

— Bhagavad Gita

Think not I am what I appear.

— Lord Byron

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

— Raymond Chandler

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.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

— Herb Cohen

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

— Cindy Crawford

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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.

— Richard C. Cushing

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.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

— Robert C. Edwards

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

— George Eliot

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

— Euripides

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went Oooh.

— Laurence Fishburne

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

— Thomas Fuller

Things are seldom what they seem.

— W. S. Gilbert

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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?

— Germaine Greer

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.

— William Hazlitt

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.

— Ernest Hemingway

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

— Oliver Herford

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

— Don Herold

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

— Kin Hubbard

God loveth the clean.

— The Koran

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

— Jean De La Fontaine

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

— Charles Lamb

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.

— Fran Lebowitz

You're only has good as your last haircut.

— Susan Lee

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

— Abraham Lincoln

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Sisters Of Mercy

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

— Alanis Morissette

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 fa?ade of his appearance.

— Iris Murdoch

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

— Rosie O'Donnell

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

— Ovid

When disposition wins us, the features please.

— Ovid

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

— Ovid

First appearance deceives many.

— Phaedrus

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

— Phaedrus

All things are becoming to good people.

— Proverb

The best mirror is an old friend.

— Proverb

Wide will wear, but tight will tear.

— Proverb

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

— English Proverb

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

— Gaelic Proverb

A little man often cast a long shadow.

— Italian Proverb

Chins without beards deserve no honor.

— Spanish Proverb

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

— Robert Redford

We see things as we are, not as they are.

— Leo Rosten

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

— John Ruskin

Appearance rules the world.

— Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

— Seneca

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.

— Tom Sharp

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

— Robert Southey

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.

— Robert Southey

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

— Terence

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

— Mark Twain

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

— Source Unknown

Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights.

— Source Unknown

Trust not to much to appearances.

— Virgil

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.

— Christopher Walken

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.

— Daniel Webster

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

— John Wesley

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

— Oscar Wilde

We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting.

— Michael Lipsey