Appearance Quotes

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.

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.

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

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

First appearance deceives many.

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

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

Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.

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

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

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

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

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

Appearances are often deceiving.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.







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