Subject: Appearance (Page 53)

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

Azinger is wearing an all back outfit: black jumper, blue trousers, white shoes and a pink tea-cosy hat.

British sports announcer

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws… only catapults.

(1973 – ) American comedian

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much – just an occasional sun visor.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

(1925 – ) American author and literary, theater & film critic

I dress for women… I undress for men.

(1931 – ) American actress

Newman: I’m a little offended, Jerry.

Jerry: You’re not a little anything, Newman.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me.

Makeup: What it takes to look natural.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

All other things being equal, the side with the simplest uniforms wins.

I once described him [Arnold Schwarzenegger] as looking like a condom full of walnuts.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

You really wanna know what you look like to other people?… have a child draw you.

(1975 – ) American comedian & talk radio personality

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was, I said, 'Actual' … I'm not to scale.

(1973 – ) American comedian

He should know better than that. He knows I only drink scotch.

Canadian professional hockey goalie

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

1. Fat expands to fill any apparel worn.
2. A fat person walks in the middle of the hall.

He is so ugly… when he throws a boomerang it won’t come back.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist