Subject: Appearance (Page 10)

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?

(1805 – 1864) English editor, novelist & sporting writer

I don’t consider myself bald… I’m simply taller than my hair.

American actor & comedian

I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory… an empty gin bottle.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

I don’t know why I should even bother to eat this. I should just apply it directly to my hips.

(1939 – ) American actress

He's grinning like a possum eating a persimmon.

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

professional football player

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is "knowing what your uterus looks like.”

(1941 – 2012) American novelist, producer, screenwriter & director

His face is sagging with tension.

English sports commentator

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

He's had so many face-lifts, his face has moved to the top of his head, you have to get on a step-ladder to watch him lie!

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist

She looks like something that would eat its young.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

American basketball broadcaster

I speak two languages, Body and English.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

Claire: Your hair looks good, the curls work. Why don’t you get a perm?
Rose Morgan: I tried that once, I looked like Shirley Temple on crack.

(1942 – ) American singer-songwriter, actress, writer, film producer & director

Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of women.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

He looks like the hindquarters of bad luck.

Why does everything you wear look like it’s bearing a grudge, darling?

(1958 – ) English comedian, screenwriter & actress

She’s like a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon; you can’t talk to it, it can’t talk to you, all you can do is stand back and be awed by it.

(1897 – 1977) American filmwriter, producer & director