Looks Can Be Decieving Quotes

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Iain Banks
“Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.”
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

C.J. Carlyon
“Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.”
C.J. Carlyon, The Cherry House

Jodi Picoult
“They look up at me and see a rich lady in maternity clothes. They don't realize I am one of them.”
Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

Nina George
“He’s short, fat and, objectively speaking, not the most obvious choice of pin-up boy. But he’s smart, strong and he can probably do whatever’s necessary for a life of love. I think he’s the most beautiful man I will ever kiss,’ said Samy. ‘It’s strange that magnificent, good-hearted people like him don’t receive more love. Do their looks disguise their character so well that nobody notices how open their soul, their being and their principles are to love and kindness?”
Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“People love you and value you by,
how good you are? And not by,
how good you look.”
Luffina Lourduraj

Andrei Bely
“If you fall for a dark-eyed beauty, pretty as a picture, with lips as sweet as a luscious rasberry, and a gentle face, unrumpled by kisses, like an apple-blossom petal in May, and she becomes your love—then do not say that love is yours: even though you cannot tire of her rounded breasts, of her slender frame that melts in your embrace like wax before a flame. . . . The day will come, that cruel hour will come, the fatal moment will come, when he face will fade, rumpled by kisses, her breasts will no longer quiver at your touch: all this will come to pass; and you will be alone with your own shadow amidst the sunscorched deserts and the dried up springs, where flowers do not bloom and the sunlight plays on the dry skin of a lizard; and you might even see the hairy black tarantula’s lair, all enmeshed in the threads of its web . . . And then your thirsting voice will be raised from the sands, calling longingly to your homeland.
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But if your love is otherwise, if her browless face has once been touched by the black blemish of the pox, if her hair is red, her breasts sagging, her bare feet dirty, and to any extent at all her stomach protrudes, and still she is your love—then that which you have sought and found in her is the sacred homeland of your soul.”
Andrei Bely, The Silver Dove

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
“When it comes to your looks, the only option in this world that matters is yours.”
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, Fugly

“so many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.”
Thomas Hoby, The Book of the Courtier