Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
~Jonathan Swift

It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
~Jean Cocteau

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
~Samuel Butler, Erewhon

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
~Maurice Chevalier

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

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Pretty is the queen that rules our land.
~Carrie Latet

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
~P.J. O'Rourke

Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
~Lord Chesterfield

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
~Daniel Webster

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
~Baltasar Gracian