Theophrastus Quotes

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Our clothes are not always beautiful on the hanger, but put them on, and they fit like bathing suits.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

First appearance deceives many.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.