Quotes about Appearance
Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that
— Joyce Meyer
The two commandments go beneath social performance and social appearance to the deep, elemental, defining issue of "God versus the gods.
— Walter Brueggemann
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
— Washington Irving
can I have the heart to fluster the flustered Thipps further—that's very difficult to say quickly—by appearing in a top-hat and frock-coat? I think not. Ten to one he will overlook my trousers and mistake me for the undertaker. A grey suit, I fancy, neat but not gaudy, with a hat to tone, suits my other self better. Exit the amateur of first editions; new motive introduced by solo bassoon; enter Sherlock Holmes, disguised as a walking gentleman.
— Dorothy Sayers
So she will, said the Dowager. You'll see that young man in the Cabinet before very long. Such a handsome couple on a public platform, and very sound, I'm told, about pigs, and that's so important, the British breakfast-table being what it is.
— Dorothy Sayers
so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.
— Dorothy Sayers
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
— Dorothy West
Appearances are often deceiving.
— Aesop
Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
— Aesop
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
— Aesop
I hate red-carpet photographs!
— Kirsten Dunst
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
— Billy Sunday