Appearance Quotes - Page 4

• I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one...

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Girly, Mind

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962; later quoted in Ms. Magazine, August 1972.

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• Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Inspiration, Lgbt

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Fake People, Humility

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• The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mirrors, Looks, Disgusting

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs". Book by Morton A. Meyers, p. 14, 2007.

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

  Alice Walker

  People, Wish, Literature

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• You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

  Unknown

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

  John Dryden

  Brave, Soul, Treasure

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• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Expression, Honest

  A Curious Dream (1872) "A Mysterious Visit"

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• The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

  Don Herold

  Study, Beggar, Persons

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• Appearances are deceptive.

  Aesop

  Deceptive

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

  Lord Chesterfield

  People, Gold, Brass

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.150

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• I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

  Pam Grier

  Grew Up, Emphasis, Grew

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• Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Witty, Character, Imagination

  "The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics" edited by Frederick C. Beiser, (p. 131), 1996.

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• This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

  Confucius

  People, Sound, Influence

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.297

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• When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.

  Gwen Ifill

  Talking, Oil, Yesterday

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• Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Als

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1967). “Publications”

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

  Shelley Berman

  Memorable, Firsts, Carnegie

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Play, Piano, Height

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

  Peter Lynch

  Government, Giving, Parliament

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• My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Beautiful, Attention, Screen Time

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