Appearance Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

“the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something there, no…

— Robert Harris

“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...”

— William Morris

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a…

— Konrad Lorenz

“It was the face that disturbed me. The artist had lit it in such a way that it appeared very strong, actually, to my…

— Barbara Cohen

“Was it really right to look the way he did? His prominent nose was altogether too immodest for his humble position in life; and…

— Knut Hamsun

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

— Richard Russo

“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with outward beauty…

— Plato

“Intelligent, unscrupulous, determined, and capable of seeing a man strangled without changing color.”

— Henry James

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From out dark spirits.

— John Keats

“Though the pictured face was floridly coloured, you suspected pallor; a mind lightly balanced, and liable to snap from sheer weight of dreams.”

— Carter Dickson