Exterior Quotes

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. (Juvenal)
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. View quote
William Cowper
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. View quote
Walt Whitman
Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior. View quote
Jennifer Beals
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter. View quote
Elle Macpherson
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew. View quote
Dennis Lehane
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. View quote
Anne Brontë
From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left. (Vitruvius)
All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change. View quote
Samael Aun Weor
It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. View quote
Mark Twain
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. View quote
Vernon Howard
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept. View quote
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior. View quote
Boris Kodjoe
The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart. View quote
Erin Wasson
I think... I love Los Angeles. I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is. View quote
Greta Gerwig
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life. View quote
Gene Robinson
I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be. (Janelle Monae)
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting. View quote
Tatiana Maslany
My father loved us dearly and deeply. There were eleven of us and our love for him was full of admiration. We held him in a kind of respectful awe, so powerful and formidable did he seem. I soon learned that beneath the exterior of a rough cavalryman he had a very good heart. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi