Famous Quotes - Tags - Appearance

  • ... your problem is your role models were models. More
  • A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of... More
  • A fine-looking mill, but no machinery inside. More
  • A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean... More
  • A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. More
  • A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we... More
  • A sweet disorder in the dress
    Kindles in clothes a wantonness. More
  • Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks. More
  • Appearances often are deceiving. More
  • At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white... More
  • Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. More
  • Beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I... More
  • Claudio. The old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls.
    Leonato. Indeed, he... More
  • Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way... More
  • Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
    Hover through the fog and filthy air. More
  • First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have... More
  • Gertrude. Why seems it so particular with thee?
    Hamlet. Seems, madam? nay, it is, I know not... More
  • Give me a look, give me a face,
    That makes simplicity a grace;
    Robes loosely flowing,... More
  • Give me that glass, and therein will I read.
    No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow... More
  • Give not this rotten orange to your friend;
    She’s but the sign and semblance of her honor. More
  • Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. More
  • Hamlet. What, looked he frowningly?
    Horatio. A countenance more
    In sorrow than in anger. More
  • He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. More
  • He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. More
  • He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it... More
  • He’s as tall a man as any’s in Illyria. More
  • How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! More
  • I am not merry; but I do beguile
    The thing I am by seeming otherwise. More
  • I do believe thee;
    I saw his heart in’s face. More
  • I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man.... Under the black hat, when I had first... More
  • I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision... More
  • I think there’s never a man in Christendom
    Can lesser hide his love or hate than... More
  • I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
    With this thy fair and outward character. More
  • If I’m not so large as you,
    You are not so small as I,
    And not half so spry. More
  • It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the... More
  • Kent. You have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.
    Lear. What’s... More
  • Lord Angelo is precise,
    Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses
    That his blood... More
  • Lord worshipped might he be, what a beard hast thou got! More
  • Mamillius. What color are your eyebrows?
    1st Lady. Blue, my lord.
    Mamillius. Nay,... More
  • Men seldom make passes
    At girls who wear glasses. More
  • Mislike me not for my complexion,
    The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
    To whom I am... More
  • Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a... More
  • No, no; but as in my idolatry
    I said to all my profane mistresses,
    Beauty, of pity,... More
  • Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. More
  • Now I perceive that she hath made compare
    Between our statures; she hath urged her... More
  • O wise and upright judge!
    How much more elder art thou than thy looks! More
  • O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
    In the contempt and anger of his lip! More
  • Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor,
    For ‘tis the mind that makes the body... More
  • Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. More
  • So may the outward shows be least themselves—
    The world is still deceived with ornament. More
  • The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is... More
  • The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage... More
  • The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the... More
  • The men are magnificent—the young men tall, well formed, and admirably dressed; the old men... More
  • The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the... More
  • The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their... More
  • There are a sort of men whose visages
    Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
    And do a... More
  • There is less in this than meets the eye. More
  • There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance. More
  • There’s no art
    To find the mind’s construction in the face. More
  • Things are seldom what they seem,
    Skim milk masquerades as cream. More
  • This is one of the most serious intrusions into personal life that I can think of, and it’s as... More
  • Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
    To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous... More
  • To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain... More
  • We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great... More
  • We’ll have a swashing and a martial outside,
    As many other mannish cowards have
    That do... More
  • What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses,
    She doth attyre under a net of gold: More
  • What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. More
  • What, is the jay more precious than the lark
    Because his feathers are more beautiful?
    Or... More
  • Woman ... cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear... More
  • Women generally should be taught that the rough life men must needs lead, in order to be healthy,... More
  • Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye,
    As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens... More
  • Your looks are laughable
    Unphotographable. More
  • ‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the... More
  • “Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.”
    What many men desire! That many may be... More

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