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Quotes About Appearances

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

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. – Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

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

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

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

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. – Alice Walker

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. – Jean Cocteau

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. – Oscar Wilde

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. – Henry Ward Beecher

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

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. – Unknown

Pretty is the queen that rules our land. – Carrie Latet

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. – Confucius

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

The cat is the mirror of his human’s mind…the dog mirrors his human’s physical appearance. – Winifred Carriere

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

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

Appearances are often deceiving. – Aesop

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. – Baltasar Gracian

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


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