Simone Elkeles Quotes

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

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

Appearances do matter.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

When you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

First appearance deceives many.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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

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

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

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

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

It's kinda all about image.