superficial appearance Quotes

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

A $50 haircut, cool glasses, skinny jeans and a tattoo does not a prophet make.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.

The red carpet doesn't interest me. I think people become all the same; it's like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it's all the same.

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

You can't be deep without a surface

I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.