Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she's absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

There are certainly things in live broadcasts that I've done that I wish I could have gone back to edit and make better. It's hard, because you want it to be perfect, and it just isn't. Even in the edited ones, it's not everything you want it to be - but it's closer.

I welcome comments. I think criticism can be very constructive and can help further. I mean, there's no perfect perfection anywhere. There's no perfect picture.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

The years that pass eat up your margin for error until there is no margin left. The mistakes you make are no longer flaws of inexperience, they are flaws of character. To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection—just a little further and you’ll get there—but you never get there, and suddenly you’re old, and find yourself in a permanent state of imperfection, which you must reckon with.

It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

I'm a one-take kind of guy, except I don't do it in one take.

Substance should outweigh perfection.