(1633 quotes found)
“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society”
Naomi Wolf
“Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.”
English Proverb
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde
“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”
Ludwig Feuerbach
“My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'”
Conor Oberst
“Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to”
William Somerset Maugham
“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
Alice Walker
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
Thomas Paine
