Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

Chinese Women looked like great sea snails- the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs.

I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

A good presence is letters of recommendation.

To lose a lover or even a husband or two during the course of one's life can be vexing. But to lose one's teeth is a catastrophe.

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labelled.

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

He might have just been in a play that closed in Philadelphia. He might have been with a law firm.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Most men wear their belts low here, there being so many outstanding bellies, some big enough to have names of their own and be formally introduced.

The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

She wears a slip beneath this dress but the materials of both are so thin that her dark sweated nipples are stuck to them and show through, and it is at her nipples, mainly, that the men keep looking.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.