Francis Chan Quotes

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Sometimes, people only change what they look like for the acceptance of other people, and that's where you start going wrong.

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

I have thought for a long time that the way my clothes hang on me is more important than me inside them.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Nobody cares if you're on the cover of a magazine!

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.

The most uninteresting thing for me is when somebody thinks too much about how they put themselves together.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.

All the worth of some people lies in their name; upon a closer inspection it dwindles to nothing, but from a distance it deceives us.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all. I don't care if there's a button right there at the top of Drudge saying 'like' or 'dislike,' 'thumbs up,' 'thumbs down,' it doesn't mean anything.

For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.