Quotes About Appearance
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? - Dame Edith Sitwell Quote
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
- Ivy Compton-Burnett Quote
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln Quote
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
- Jonathan Swift Quote
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
- Dame Edith Sitwell Quote
On the fishing line the cork dances around and attracts a lot of attention, but it's the hook that is doing the business. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker Quote
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
- Jean Cocteau Quote
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler Quote
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher Quote
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
- Maurice Chevalier Quote
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli Quote
When we stop dressing well, we save in one way and lose in three ways. We balk ambition, flag self-respect, and discount the respect of others. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Quote, Human, All Too Human
Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.
- Unknown Quote
Pretty is the queen that rules our land.
- Carrie Latet Quote
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.
- Confucius Quote
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates Quote
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- P.J. O'Rourke Quote
The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.
- Winifred Carriere Quote
Churches with high steeples do not always save the most souls. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
- Lord Chesterfield Quote
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster Quote
Appearances are often deceiving.
- Aesop Quote
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
- Baltasar Gracian Quote
If the clothes make a man, it is a cinch his face can unmake him. If you look worried, hungry, grouchy, men will avoid you. - F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
- Benjamin Franklin Quote
