Quotes on appearance
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Chevalier, Maurice
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Webster, Daniel
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Chesterfield, Earl of
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Gracian, Baltasar
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
O'Rourke, P.J.
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Machiavelli, Niccolo
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Swift, Jonathan
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Cocteau, Jean