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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?
- Lily Tomlin
Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.
- Dita Von Teese
Men in all ways are better than they seem.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
- Tertullian
I do not like to see young Christians with shoulders that slope like a champagne bottle.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Therefore, neither confide in nor depend upon a wind-shaken reed, for "all flesh is grass" and all its glory, like the flower of grass, will fade away. You will quickly be deceived if you look only to the outward appearance of men, and you will often be disappointed if you seek comfort and gain in them.
- Thomas a Kempis
Thou wilt be quickly deceived if thou lookest only upon the outward appearance of men, for if thou seekest thy comfort and profit in others, thou shalt too often experience loss. If thou seekest Jesus in all things thou shalt verily find Jesus, but if thou seekest thyself thou shalt also find thyself, but to thine own hurt. For if a man seeketh not Jesus he is more hurtful to himself than all the world and all his adversaries.
- Thomas a Kempis
Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.
- Virginia Woolf
Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.
- Virginia Woolf
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
- Virginia Woolf
Never did anybody look so sad.
- Virginia Woolf