Motivational Quotes

Appearance

First appearance deceives many.

- Phaedrus

Best Quotes about Appearance

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.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Cohen, Herb

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?

Greer, Germaine

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

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

Fishburne, Laurence

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Ovid

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

Ovid

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Terence

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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.

Webster, Daniel

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

Euripides

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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.

Arbus, Diane

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rosten, Leo

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You're only has good as your last haircut.

Lee, Susan

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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.

Southey, Robert

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

Proverb, English

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Herold, Don

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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.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Curtis, Jamie Lee

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When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Walken, Christopher

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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

Mercy, Sisters Of

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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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

O'Donnell, Rosie

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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Crawford, Cindy

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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.

Ashe, Arthur

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

Seneca

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Morissette, Alanis

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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.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Appearance rules the world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Chins without beards deserve no honor.