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Quotes about Appearance

That hand looked a hundred years old. Knuckles and gristle.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
- St. Jerome
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.
- Joseph Addison
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.
- Joseph Addison
Self-justification is a verbal defense for restoring the appearance of righteousness without doing anything about the substance.
- Eugene Peterson
I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
- Kirsten Dunst
The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.
- Gloria Steinem
I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes - I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them .. Thelma Rae Goodpepper in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- Beth Hoffman
After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person.
- Shonda Rhimes
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
- John Ortberg
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
- Oscar Wilde
He shall appear suddenly and blissfully to all that love Him.
- Julian of Norwich