Appearance Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The…

— Oscar Wilde

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus, and you—well, of course you have an intellectual expression, and all that. But beauty, real beauty,…

— Oscar Wilde

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore every time…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there…

— George Eliot

Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond of the…

— Max Kozloff

“What is a face really? It's own photo? It's makeup? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which…

— Pablo Picasso

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which…

— George Eliot

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

— St. Jerome

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference;…

— William Hazlitt