Motivational Quotes

Appearance

When disposition wins us, the features please.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Appearance

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

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

Crawford, Cindy

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Euripides

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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When disposition wins us, the features please.

Ovid

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

13.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

O'Donnell, Rosie

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

Redford, Robert

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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

18.

All things are becoming to good people.

Proverb

19.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Proverb, Italian

20.

Trust not to much to appearances.

Virgil

21.

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

Herold, Don

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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

25.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Wide will wear, but tight will tear.

Proverb

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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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First appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

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You're only has good as your last haircut.

Lee, Susan

31.

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

Chandler, Raymond

32.

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

Sharp, Tom

33.

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

34.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Proverb, Gaelic

35.

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

Cohen, Herb

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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

Lamb, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Chins without beards deserve no honor.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Ovid

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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.

44.

Think not I am what I appear.

Byron, Lord

45.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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