Nature is clever enough to cheat even you, Mother." "Nonsense, child! Nature never makes a ferret in the shape of a mastiff.
You'll never persuade me that I can't tell what men are by their outsides.

If I don't like a man's looks, depend upon it I shall never like HIM.

I don't want to know people that look ugly and disagreeable, any more than I want to taste dishes that look disagreeable.

If they make me shudder at the first glance, I say, take them away.

An ugly, piggish, or fishy eye, now, makes me feel quite ill; it's like a bad smell." "Talking of eyes," said Captain Donnithorne, "that reminds me that I've got a book I meant to bring you, Godmamma.