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Appearance Proverbs

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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 ...

Style Proverbs

Sayings about Style The style is the man himself. ~ Greek Proverb Every fashion goes out of style . ~ Japanese Proverb An obscure style is a blind mirror. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Style Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man. ~ George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. ~ Margaret Oliphant And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. ~ Isaac D'Israeli, The first requisite of style , not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot. ~ Robert Ari...