Beauty is altogether in the eyes of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: beauty appearances

All that glisters is not gold.
Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: value worth appearances

Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
Dutch proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: looks lookism appearances

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty external appearances

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: self-image self-awareness appearances

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Anne Sophie Swethchine Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: vanity dignity appearances

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction--I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: age aging looks attitude appearances

Kindness is women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.
William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: kindness appearances character

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
William Shakespeare (King John) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: appearances vanity conceit materialism

The tragedy of our time is that we are so eye centered, so appearance besotted.
Jessamyn West Simple Abundance
Categories: appearances judgementalism vanity looks clothes

Beauty will fade, but not goodness.
Philippine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: beauty appearances soul character

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water's calm.
Malaysian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: caution safety appearances judge

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: power clothes appearances materialism

A good archer is not known by his arrows, but his aim.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: style substance looks appearances looks results outcome

There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Moroccan proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: effort work action character appearances

Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: beauty appearances vanity pride conceit

Virtue is like rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: virtue character appearances soul integrity

That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty appearances soul character peace happiness joy

No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: clothes materialism judgementalism acceptance appearances values

The child's sense of awe and wonder is too often replaced by a preoccupation with how we look, and whether we're making enough money, and what will the neighbors think, and what do our parents think, and what did our schoolteachers tell us, and what does our religion say. In other words, our intellect controls us.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: wonder appreciation worry appearances self-esteem self-confidence judgementalism

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: truth honesty integrity deception appearances judgement

Appearances aren't everything.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: looks lookism appearances clothes vanity conceit pride

The worst thing that can happen to you as an enthusiastic adult is that you could appear foolish to people who need to criticize. Let me assure you--enthusiasm is worth this risk. If you allow yourself to be enthusiastic, you'll be so full of wonder, you won't care what people think.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: enthusiam judgementalism appearances fear risk wonder witnessing

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart. Then people are going to treat you better. You're going to find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
Carole King Tapestry by Carole King
Categories: inner beauty attitude optimism self-image happiness appearances joy joy confidence

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
Goldwyn talent scout's assessment of Fred Astaire The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: talent ability capability judgement appearances perservere determination self-improvement growth

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: relationships friendships humanity racism bigotry love appearances self brotherhood equality discrimination agape

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork--reading, writing, thinking--can.
Helen Gurley Brown Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: beauty appearances character books philosophy looks vanity growth self-improvement learning education books journaling study intellect mind thought wisdom knowledge