Appearance Quotes - Page 36

• One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange boots for slippers, out-of-doors coat for easy, familiar, shabby jacket, and, in my deep, soft-elbowed chair, await the tea-tray.... [H]ow delicious is the soft yet penetrating odour which floats into my study, with the appearance of the teapot!... What a glow does it bring after a walk in chilly rain!

  George Gissing

  Rain, Doors, Shining

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on the fires of greed and war; His left paw in the Mudra of Comradely Display - indicating that all creatures have the full right to live to their limits and that deer, rabbits, chipmunks, snakes, dandelions, and lizards all grow in the realm of the Dharma.

  Gary Snyder

  War, Cutting, Animal

  Gary Snyder (2009). “Back on the Fire: Essays”, p.125, Counterpoint

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• There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the truth is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.

  Victoria Forester

  Hurt, Real, Self

  Victoria Forester (2008). “The Girl Who Could Fly”, p.275, Macmillan

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• There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as
  there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Birth, Seeming

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• An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Beauty, Essentials, Fragility

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

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• What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in.

  Saint Peter

  Beauty, What Matters, Delight

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• To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Children, Character, Years

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• The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.

  E. B. White

  Race, Glasses, Car

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• Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Interesting, Towns, Manners

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.19

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• A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Order, Doe

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• I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Feelings, Elements

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Exercise, Power, Self

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1910). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to power”

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• What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Doe, Consideration, Seems

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Morning

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• Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

  Walker Percy

  Ignorance, Ifs

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Essence

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• Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not through showmanship. They who practice deceit, attain not Deliverance in the Hereafter. They do so only to accomplish the affairs of the world and even the kings worship them for their appearance! But through showmanship, God is attained not, howsoever one searches. He who subdues his mind alone recognizes the Transcendent God.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Religious, Kings, Men

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• Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Essence, Pursuit, Minimalism

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• Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Truth, Doe, World

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• Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, Tired, Men

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Essence, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1849). “Works: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy; with Notes, Notices, Etc”, p.401

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• When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

  Marcel Proust

  Dream, Mistake, Taken

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

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• We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Looks, May, Looking Good

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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