Mark Twain Quotes About Appearance

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

• Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

  Mark Twain

  Eye, Giving, Sticks

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3980, Delphi Classics

• Names are not always what they seem.

  Mark Twain

  Names, Labyrinth, Criminal Mind

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

• 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

  Honesty, Inspiration, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Expression, Honest

  A Curious Dream (1872) "A Mysterious Visit"

• It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

  Mark Twain

  Age, May, Firsts

• My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Firsts, Appearance

  Mark Twain (2000). “Mark Twain: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and Other Speeches”, Cooper Square Pub

• Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Six, Sometimes

  Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

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