what other people think of me is important… attractive people are more successful… it is essential to look young… i always look my best… i can tell a lot about a person by the way they dress… i follow the current trends in the fashion and beauty industry… i am disappointed if i don’t get compliments on my appearance… it is important to change my look often… i am not happy with my body…
Straight trees have crooked roots.
16th century proverb
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
She got her good looks from her father--he’s a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
Iris Murdoch, Irish writer
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Joan Didion, American writer
