Quotes on Appearance

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

Author: Aesop

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

Author: Arthur Ashe

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Author: Jane Austen

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

Author: Douglas Bader

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

Author: Martha Beck

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

Author: Henry Beecher

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.

Author: Robert Benchley

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

Author: Victor Borge

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

Author: Georg Brandes

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

Author: James Buckley

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

Author: Samuel Butler

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Author: Mason Cooley

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

Author: George Cuvier

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.

Author: William Dampier

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Author: Albert Einstein

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.

Author: Robert Fortune

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

Author: Marguerite Gardiner

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

Author: Boy George

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

Author: Albert Hart

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Author: Rutherford Hayes

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

Author: Don Herold

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Author: Aldous Huxley

Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.

Author: Lara John

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Author: Ernst Kirchner

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.

Author: James Kirkwood

But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned - I mean, there's not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.

Author: Diane Kruger

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

Author: Frank Langella

We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.

Author: Kenneth Latourette

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Author: Augustus Longstreet

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

Author: David Low

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

Author: Mainbocher

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

Author: Marc Maron

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

Author: Sarah McLachlan

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

Author: Ivor Novello

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

Author: George Orwell

First appearance deceives many.

Author: Ovid

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.

Author: Minnie Pearl

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Author: Phaedrus

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Author: Jean Rostand

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

Author: Marilyn Savant

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.

Author: Hjalmar Schacht

Appearance rules the world.

Author: Friedrich Schiller

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.

Author: Garry shandling

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Author: Leland Stanford

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

Author: Sharon Stone

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Author: Emma Thompson

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

Author: Alanna Ubach

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

Author: Andrew Vachss

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.

Author: Sid Vicious

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Author: Fritz Weaver

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.

Author: Daniel Webster

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.

Author: Andre Weil

True beauty lies not in the perfection of appearance, but in the authenticity of being.

Author: Emily Parker

Do not judge a book by its cover, for within its pages lies hidden wisdom waiting to be uncovered.

Author: Samantha Jones

Some people treat eyebrows like real estate - they firmly believe in the importance of location, location, location.

Author: Emma Stone