Sayings about Appearance
Do not judge by appearance; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.~ Gaelic Proverb
Appearances can be deceiving.~ English Proverbs
In the mirror everybody sees his best friend. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
He who has a true friend, has no need of a mirror. ~ Indian Proverbs
The eye is the mirror of the soul. ~ Traditional Proverb
A mother is gold, a father is a mirror. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
The best mirror is a friend’s eye. ~ Scottish Proverbs
The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle. ~ Arabian Proverb
Man is his own mirror. ~ Turkish Proverbs
No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the czar won’t see his face. ~ Russian Proverbs
A little man often casts a long shadow.~ Italian Proverbs
Mirrors were not made for the blind. ~ Spanish Proverb
Your best mirror is someone more beautiful than you. ~ Chinese Proverb
With nice appearance people want to be deceived. ~ German Proverbs
You can mirror something from other people; you can only give out that which is your own. ~ Chinese Proverb
Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.~ English Proverb
A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror. ~ Maltese Proverb
A mirror does not reflect a broken heart. ~ Iranian Proverbs
An obscure style is a blind mirror. ~ Chinese Proverb
Never judge from appearances. ~ Traditional Proverb
The real capital of a man is a mirror worth two cents. ~ Turkish Proverb
Quotations about Appearance
Trust not too much to appearances.~ Virgil
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. ~ Vitruvius
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ~ Chanakya
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ~ St. Jerome
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. ~ Aesop
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ~ Khalil Gibran
People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.~ Candice Bergen
The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.~ Abraham Lincoln
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.~ Oscar Wilde
Appearance rules the world.~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
When you look in the mirror, your ‘appearance,’ that outer you, is what you see first. ~ Teri Hatcher
You mirror what the world mirrors to you. ~ Jennifer Lopez
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.~ Euripides
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
You are only what you are when no one is looking.~ Robert C. Edwards
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us – not our effects on others. ~ Pearl Bailey
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.~ Oliver Goldsmith
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
First appearance deceives many.~ Ovid
What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance. ~ Mason Cooley
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.~ Aesop
Think not I am what I appear.~ Lord Byron
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
Neglect of appearance becomes men.~ Ovid
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance~ Henry Ward Beecher
Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that! ~ Tyra Banks
We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Your best appearance may be what is most remembered about you; don’t leave home without it.~ Clarence E. Hodges
I’m a mirror. If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are. ~ Jay-Z
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. ~ Evita Peron
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.~ Richard C. Cushing
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ~ Pablo Picasso
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life. ~ Yoko Ono
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them … there is nothing.~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them. ~ Paul Morand
If you begin to think you’re something you’re not, you’re looking in the wrong mirror. ~ Eugene Cernan
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ~ Malcolm de Chazal
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.~ Phaedrus
You’re only as good as your last haircut.~ Susan Lee
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.~ Daniel Webster
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. ~ Christopher Lasch
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. ~ Rumi
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.~ Thomas Fuller
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. ~ Ernest Holmes
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative – don’t wait for someone else to ask you to act. ~ Sylvia Earle
Things are seldom what they seem.~ W. S. Gilbert
A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite. ~ Elizabeth Fishel
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. ~ Earl Nightingale
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~ Samuel Butler
How Your Appearance Impacts Your Success An article by Gian Fiero