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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. ~Jean Cocteau


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


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


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


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