People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.
Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
Clothes form the intellect of the dandy.
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.
That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.
Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
When people think fashion is just the surface of things, I disagree very politely.
Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we acted like we were the happiest, most together family.
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?
If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.
I don't really go to a lot of parties. It only seems that way because so many photos are taken when I do go to one.
I think pageant girls just have a way of faking it until you make it, almost.
