Appearance Quotes - Page 6

• Think not I am what I appear.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.796, Delphi Classics

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• The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

  John Naisbitt

  Dinosaurs, Mergers, Bigs

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• Thy plain and open nature sees mankind
  But in appearance, not what they are.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mankind

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• As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Character, Hair, Color

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• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Tangible, Language, Falsehood

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• In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Coats, May

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Watches, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.409

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mean, Men, Dresses

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.121

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• By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

  Washington Irving

  Kindness, Eye, Discipline

  Washington Irving (1897). “The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated”

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• In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Flower, Grief

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.33

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• We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Character, Judging

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  For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

  Claude Monet

  Life, Change, Stars

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• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  Ovid

  Men, Neglect

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• When you talk like an asshole and look like an asshole, you're an asshole

  John Lydon

  Funny, Attitude, Talking

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• Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Lee Van Cleef

  Funny, Eye, Acting

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

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

  Aesop

  Reality, Mind, Looks

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  Thomas Paine “Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Appearance rules the world.

  Friedrich Schiller

  World

  Friedrich Schiller, Schiller Institute (Washington, D.C.) (1985). “Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom”

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• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Men, Long, Shadow

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• Regardless of how you 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.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• Handsome is that handsome does.

  Henry Fielding

  Doe, Handsome

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.196

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• The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Looks, Normal, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Is it 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

  Women, Struggle, Order

  The Female Eunuch (1970)

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• You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of eternity. There's only one of you ever created. Ev-er. You are the only you. That's pretty powerful. So why on earth would you want to look like anybody else, dress like anyone else, dance like anyone else, be someone else, when you are a legend in your own right?

  Mia Michaels

  Inspirational, Dance, Being Yourself

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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