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Appearance Quotes
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
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"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
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"After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected."
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"Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel."
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"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
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"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."
"There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound."
"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
"But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example."
"Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only."
"The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature."
"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when.""
"Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
"In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same."
"I see a little better grooming. Some might even be trying a little powder."
"A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."
"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."
"Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance."
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
"The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off."
"They were taking pictures and everything. When we got down off the plane, the minute Elvis made his appearance at the door of the plane, the screaming got even worse."
"She walks well, she looks good. Let's see how she kisses."
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
"My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81."
"Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often."
"Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them."
"I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not."
"They're just big in the eyes of the American public."
"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away."
"Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour."
"Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote."
"One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him."
"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments."
"He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!""
"It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man."
"I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it."
"What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud."
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."
"There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element."
"Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven."
"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."
"Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues."
"When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance."
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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