Best 583 quotes in «appearance quotes» category

Widmerpool had tidied himself up a little since leaving school, though there was still a kind of exotic drabness about his appearance that seemed to mark him out from the rest of mankind.

Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.

Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance

You can draw up your appearance beautiful with the makeup and the dress; it may make you stylish, but not elegant if your behavior and the character are not the beautiful, and gorgeous.

Yet, as I will make clear, any Pleistocene woman who relied on looks alone to pull offspring through was not likely to be a mother very long or leave descendants.

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles.

You look like something the cat coughed up, dragged through dirt, ate, and coughed up again.

You need to understand that you are not your appearance or your body

Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person. A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important.

You can’t patch cracks on a glass house.

You never changed your appearance for men. You changed it for other women. Because they were the ones carefully tracking each others weight and skin tone along with their own. They were the ones trapped with you on the ridiculous appearance obsession merry go round that they couldn't or wouldn't get off.

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Your looks are an important part of who you are." He winds a lock of my hair around his finger. "You wouldn't be who you are, the same personality, if you'd grown up looking different. You're a blend of your body and your soul.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

All hoods make not monks.

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.

All that glisters is not gold.

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

An emperor in his nightcap will not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Appearances are deceiving.

Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Appearances are deceptive.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Appearances often are deceiving.

A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.

Appearance is valued too much in our society.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.