Famous Quotations about Appearance


Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. 
Samuel Butler
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.  All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. 
Niccolo Machiavelli

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.  
Friedrich Nietzsche   
Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? 
Robert Brault
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. 
Baltasar Gracián
There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance. 
Robert Brault 
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.
Daniel Webster
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.  Maurice Chevalier


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