Motivational Quotes

Appearance

Chins without beards deserve no honor.

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Appearance

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.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Terence

Appearance rules the world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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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

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First appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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

Cohen, Herb

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

Euripides

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When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

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

Lamb, Charles

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All things are becoming to good people.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Phaedrus

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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Wide will wear, but tight will tear.

Proverb

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You're only has good as your last haircut.

Lee, Susan

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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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A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Proverb, English

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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

O'Donnell, Rosie

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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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Trust not to much to appearances.

Virgil

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

Morissette, Alanis

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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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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Ovid

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