Appearance Quotes

“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“People care much more for how things look than how things are.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I can be an arrogant people If I have to,
or when the situation demands me to act so.
It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.
So if I know not people well, I don't judge them.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

“It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.

A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.”
― Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace

“Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.”
― Naomi Wolf

“Prettiness is lent to you by youth; attractiveness is purchased with experience.”
― C.M. Waggoner, Unnatural Magic

“It is neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo with which we have a problem, but rather judgment according to God's Word. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world: we love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one which really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than that of a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one from which we so adamantly try to cut off, shut off, and distance ourselves.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.”
― Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”
― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep

“It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

“Eventually everything appears to disappear from the life. That's it.”
― Aditya Ajmera

“I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I never did look in mirrors anyway, because I disliked myself. No, wait. I disliked my appearance.”
― Nancy Werlin, Black Mirror

“Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.”
― Mary Jo Bang

“What’s more, his faded old jeans hugged his ass perfectly as he stepped forward to toss a ring, and then they loosened as he stepped back. Hug, loosen, hug, loosen, hug, hug…hug…loosen. Jeans all perfectly rumpled right down to his dull, black boots. No doubt he chose those jeans specifically for their butt-hugging abilities. He probably practiced that hug-promoting movement in the mirror.”
― Carolyn Crane, Devil's Luck

“skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk”
― James McBride, The Good Lord Bird

“It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops.”
― Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung

“She was the quintessential twenty-first-century woman: She could build a high-rise in a Chanel suit and Jimmy Choos, give lessons in multitasking, and freeze the heart of the coldest competitor with a single unblinking gaze over the rim of her ebony-framed reading glasses. But that persona was like a bodysuit that she pulled on at eight in the morning and peeled out of at five in the afternoon.”
― Donna Ball, A Year on Ladybug Farm

“We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

“Shenanigans is a financial model on the catwalk.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.”
― Kate Cann, Diving In

“Since I’ve been living in the forest I don’t notice myself getting older. There’s nobody there to draw my attention to it, after all. Nobody tells me how I look, and I never give it a thought myself.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall