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Wednesday, 15 October 2008
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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself." (Rice, Anne - Writers and Writing)

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Browse Quotations about Appearance

'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.
A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
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.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
All things are becoming to good people.
Appearance rules the world.
Appearances are deceptive.
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Chins without beards deserve no honor.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
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.
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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.
First appearance deceives many.
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.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
God loveth the clean.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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.
I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair.
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.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look.
I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went Oooh.
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.
Neglect of appearance becomes men.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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.
Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
The best mirror is an old friend.
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
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.
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.
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.
The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.
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.
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Things are seldom what they seem.
Think not I am what I appear.
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Trust not to much to appearances.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
We see things as we are, not as they are.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
When disposition wins us, the features please.
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.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
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?
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
You are only what you are when no one is looking.
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
You're only has good as your last haircut.

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