Appearance Quotes - Page 3

• People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Divorce, People, Arrogance

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Jackets, Seems, Judged

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

  Kin Hubbard

  Being Pretty, Penalties, Suspicion

  "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

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• The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Beauty, Appreciation, Errors

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Looks, Care, Littles

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• Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

  Robert South

  Art, Laughter, World

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.495

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• I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance

  Frank Langella

  Disinterested

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• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  Kate Adie

  War, Hair, Complaining

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• In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

  Albert Bushnell Hart

  Labor, Colony

  Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”

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• We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Feel Better, Interesting, Trying

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• The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

  Leland Stanford

  Hype, Results, Antagonism

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• Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

  Francis Parkman

  Missing You, Morning, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.57, VM eBooks

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• My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

  Alanna Ubach

  Feet, Height, My Favorite

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• You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

  T. D. Jakes

  Dysfunction, Looks, Pastor

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2013

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• Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

  Tom Lehrer

  Rainy Day, Weather, Looks

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.

  Arthur Ashe

  Softball, Confidence, Winning

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• My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

  Estelle Winwood

  Stars, Worry, Advice

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• What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Behinds

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• 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

  Supposing That, Littles, Sacred

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.593

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• I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

  Georg Brandes

  Boys, Littles, Trouble

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

  Robert Breault

  Law, Inner Beauty, Persons

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• Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

  Robbie Williams

  Fun, Real, Dresses

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• When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Reality, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Dance, Essence

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.228, Random House

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