Quotations about Appearance

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett


I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. ~Jonathan Swift


It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau


Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~Samuel Butler, Erewhon


Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. ~Maurice Chevalier


There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


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


A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human


Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet


The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. ~Lord Chesterfield


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. ~Daniel Webster


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