Appearance Quotes & Sayings

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~ I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. ~

~ Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. ~

Christopher Lasch

~ The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself. ~

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

~ The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~

Aristotle

~ Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. ~

Ivy Compton-Burnett

~ The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. ~

Daniel Webster

~ Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance ~

Jean de La Fontaine

~ Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. ~

Colin Powell

~ First appearance deceives many. ~

Ovid

~ Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star ~

Estelle Winwood

~ The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive--you are leaking. ~

Fran Lebowitz

~ Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ~

Samuel Butler, Erewhon

~ When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearanceî ~

Victor Borge

~ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ~

Oscar Wilde

~ For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance. ~

Winifred Carriere

~ The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself ~

Marcel Proust

~ For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are ~

Niccolo Machiavelli

~ At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden... ~

Unknown

~ The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ~

Stanley Milgram

~ There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it. ~

Mark Twain

~ Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ~

Hannah Arendt

~ Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be ~

Duane Michals

~ Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. ~

Lord David Cecil

~ Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind. ~

Joseph Addison

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