Thoughts of Appearance Quotes in English Images Sayings

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.  You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.  It’s just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities.  Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

- Diane Arbus

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

- Epictetus

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive verything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

- William Hazlitt

The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.

- Bhagavad Gita

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

- Kahlil Gibran

Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature.  It is too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?

- Germaine Greer

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.

- Mary Lambert

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions.  A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

- William Hazlitt

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

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

Appearance Sayings List in English

You’re only as good as your last haircut.

- Fran Lebowitz Quotation

Appear always what you are and a little less.

- Greek proverb

To be rather than to seem.

- A Quotation From Aeschylus

Appearances are often deceiving.

- Aesop

Think not I am what I appear.

- Lord Byron

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

- Robert C. Edwards

Things are seldom what they seem.

- W. S. Gilbert

Handsome is that handsome does.

- Henry Fielding

You're only has good as your last haircut.

- Susan Lee

First appearance deceives many.

- Phaedrus

First appearance deceives many.

- Ovid

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

- Ovid

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

- Aeschylus

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Pretty is the queen that rules our land.

- Carrie Latet

God loveth the clean.

-The Koran

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

- Don Herold

You and I do not see things as they are.  We see things as we are.

- Herb Cohen

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

- Bible Proverb

There’s one thing about baldness, it’s neat.

- Don Herold

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

- Serge Gainsbourg

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

- Herb Cohen

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

- Thomas Fuller

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

- Albert Camus

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ovid

When disposition wins us, the features please.

- Ovid

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

- Jean Cocteau

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

- Ovid

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

- Terence

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

- Robert C. Edwards

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

- Source Unknown

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

- Aesop

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

- Edna W. Chase

First appearance deceives many.

- Ovid

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

- Thomas Fuller

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

- Ivy Compton

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

- Marguerite

The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

- Abraham Lincoln

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

- Alanis Morissette

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

- Euripides

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

- Oliver Herford

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

- Jean De La Fontaine

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

- Alanis Morissette

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

- Wayne Dyer

By outward show let’s not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.

- John Gay

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

- Charles Lamb

Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

- Jean

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

- Raymond Chandler

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

- Bible Proverb

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

- Samuel Butler

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

- George Eliot

All things are becoming to good people

- Proverb

The best mirror is an old friend.

- Proverb

Wide will, but tight will tear.

- Proverb

Appearances aren't everything.

- American proverb

Think not I am what I appear.

- Lord Byron

Every person is responsible for is own looks after 40.

- Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

- Ovid

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Appearance Quotes in English

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

- Charles Lamb

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

- Drew Barrymore

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

- Oscar Wilde

Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

- Benjamin Franklin

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Appearance rules the world.

- Johann Friedrich

Trust not to much to appearances.

- Virgil Download or Share *

Appearances are deceptive.

- Aesop

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

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Aesop

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.

- Karl Lagerfeld

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Confucius

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld Download or Share

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

John Wesley Download or Share

Appearances are often deceiving.

- Aesop Download or Share

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

- Cindy Crawford Download or Share

Appearance Thoughts in English

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

- Aristotle

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get.  People saw my face and went "Oooh."

- Laurence Fishburne

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

- Baltasar Gracian

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

- English Proverb Sayings of British Origin

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Euripides

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

- Thomas Paine

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

- Socrates

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that the most important thing a woman can have – next to talent, of course – is her hairdresser.

- Joan Crawford

When I See a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

- Richard C. Cushing

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

- Abraham Lincoln

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

One man differs from another in three things: His voice, his appearance, and his mind.

- Jewish proverb

Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception doubt.

- Muhammad Ali

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

- Robert Brault

Most people don't realize that both help and harm come from within ourselves. Instead they
look to externals, mesmerized by appearances.

- Epictetus

I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people.  Unsavory guys.  I think it's my face, the way I look.

- Christopher Walken

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

- Charles Dickens

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

- Alice Walker

Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights.

- Source Unknown

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.

- Woody Allen

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

- Daniel Webster

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

- Oscar Wilde

You can lease the peace of mind you bought a mask, I put it on.  You never thought to ask me if I wear it when you're gone

- Sister of Mercy

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.

- Phaedrus

Regardless of how feel inside, always try to look like a winner.  Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

- Arthur Ashe

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

- Martha Beck

If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

- Kin Hubbard Quotes

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

- Sun Tzu

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

- Thornton Wilder

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

- George Orwell

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

- Henry Fielding

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a pekingese?

by Edith Sitwell

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

Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.  The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

'Tis 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

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fate of his appearance.

- Iris Murdoch

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 cary them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

- Robert Southey

The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.

- Bhagavad Gita