Quotes about Appearance

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

If I had a lock of hair out of place then I would not feel OK.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

The beauty of a woman is first a soulful beauty. And yes, as we live it out, own it, inhabit our beauty, we do become more lovely. More alluring. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Self flashes off frame and face." Our true self becomes reflected in our appearance. But it flows from the inside

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...

For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend,   Meer Serpent in appearance, forth was come,   And on his Quest, where likeliest he might finde   The onely two of Mankinde, but in them   The whole included Race, his purposd prey.

I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, and you think it's a pig, it's a pig.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.