Appearance Proverbs

Sayings about Appearance

Talent counts thirty percent; appearance counts seventy. ~ Chinese Proverbs

A beautiful wife without money is like a fine house without furniture. ~ Spanish Proverbs

A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror. ~ Maltese Proverbs

Her father’s fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive. ~ Spanish Proverb

If you fall in love let her be a beauty; if you should steal, let it be a camel. ~ Lebanese Proverbs

Where the hostess is beautiful the wine is tasty. ~ French Proverbs

Beauty is a good letter of introduction. ~ Portuguese Proverbs

Your beauty is in what you have. ~ Chadian Proverbs

Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing. ~ Azerbaijani Proverbs

A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~ Turkish Proverbs

He who marries a beauty marries trouble. ~ Nigerien Proverbs

When confronted with two evils, a man will always choose the most attractive. ~ Saying

If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. ~ Chinese Proverbs

If you want to take revenge on a man, send him a really beautiful woman. ~ Arabian Proverbs

Beautiful woman, beautiful trouble. ~ Jamaican Proverbs

Beauty is the eye’s food but the soul’s sorrow. ~ German Proverbs

Time has no respect for beauty. ~ Polish Proverbs

Whoever I love is the most beautiful. ~ Georgian Proverbs

A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother. ~ Traditional Proverb

The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle. ~ Arabian Proverb

Even the devil is beautiful when he is young. ~ German Proverb

Old canoes can be restored, but youth and beauty cannot. ~ New Zealander Proverbs

Your best mirror is someone more beautiful than you. ~ Chinese Proverb

A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn’t say anything. ~ Danish Proverbs

You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own. ~ Chinese Proverb

Pretty wife, old wine -- many friends. ~ Bulgarian Proverbs

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat. ~ Gaelic Proverbs

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further off than the roar of a lion. ~ Arabian Proverb

No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman. ~ Spanish Proverb

The devil was good looking at eighteen, and course tea makes a bitter first cup. ~ Japanese Proverbs

What you love is always beautiful. ~ French Proverb

Beauty doesn’t exist, men only dream it. ~ Arabian Proverb

A beautiful thing is never perfect. ~ Egyptian Proverbs

Appearances can be deceiving. ~ English Proverbs

With nice appearance people want to be deceived. ~ German Proverb

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ~ Bible

Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor. ~ Beninese Proverbs

To have beautiful servant girls is a threat to good marriages. ~ Chinese Proverb

What worth has beauty if it is not seen? ~ Italian Proverbs

Good health is the sister of beauty. ~ Maltese Proverbs

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ~ Chinese Proverb

What is good is not necessarily beautiful. ~ Japanese Proverbs

A husband should not talk of pretty girls in front of his wife. ~ Cambodian Proverbs

A beautiful person might not have a beautiful life. ~ Taiwanese Proverbs

Charm is stronger than beauty. ~ Maltese Proverb

When he was fifteen the devil was a good looking boy. ~ French Proverb

The style is the man himself. ~ Greek Proverbs

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands. ~ English Proverb

Tell a woman once she is beautiful and the devil will repeat it ten times. ~ French Proverb

Attractiveness is better than beauty. ~ Yiddish Proverbs

Beauty is only skin deep. ~ English Proverb

Beautiful girls are seldom happy, intelligent boys are seldom beautiful. ~ Chinese Proverb

Beauty is power. ~ Arabian Proverb

A woman is attractive when she is somebody else's wife. ~ Zimbabwean Proverbs

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook. ~ French Proverb

If God didn’t like beautiful women, he wouldn’t have made them. ~ Kurdish Proverbs

The beauty of a woman does not make a man richer. ~ French Proverb

Thousands of men were murdered because of their beautiful wives. ~ Georgian Proverb

Women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old. ~ Chinese Proverb

There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~ Traditional Proverb

A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone. ~ Indian Proverbs

A good-looking man is pleasant to look at, but it is easier to live with an amusing one. ~ Russian Proverbs

Never judge from appearances. ~ Traditional Proverb

Don't trust too much in appearances. ~ Latin Proverbs

The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams. ~ Belgian Proverbs

Quotations about Appearance

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ Anaxagoras

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. ~ Blaise Pascal

There are other things besides beauty with which to captivate the hearts of men. The Italians have a saying: "Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth." ~ Ninon de L'Enclos

I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. ~ E. Lynn Linton

Handsome is that handsome does. ~ Henry Fielding

A good model can advance fashion by ten years. ~ Yves Saint-Laurent

Women and flowers are made to beloved for their beauty and sweetness, rather than themselves to love. ~ Ninon de L'Enclos

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty. ~ Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. ~ Thomas Hughes

A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. ~ Syrus

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes; but few have the gift of penetration. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise. ~ Charles de Montesquieu

We're able to judge attractiveness with surprising speed and on the basis of very little information. ~ Ingrid Olson

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. ~ Margaret Oliphant

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. ~ Phaedrus

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. ~ Dolly Parton

Style is the image of character. ~ Edward Gibbon

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. ~ Goethe

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. ~ James Marsden

Style is the dress of thoughts. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearance. ~ Jean de la Fontaine

Men in all ways are better than they seem. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. ~ George Bernard Shaw

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. ~ Ovid

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