Appearance Quotes - Page 9

• Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

  Aesop

  Life, Fables, Poor

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.21, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All that glisters is not gold.

  Common

  Inspirational, Venice, Gold

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• 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

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• I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in
  as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them
  annoy others.

  Robert Southey

  Eye, Littles, Annoying

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• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

  Kin Hubbard

  Being Pretty, Penalties, Suspicion

  "Abe Martin's Primer: The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors". Book by Kin Hubbard, 1914.

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• Things are seldom what they seem.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Things Are Not What They Seem, Seems

  H.M.S. Pinafore act 2 (1878)

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

  Thomas Paine

  Integrity, Ignorance, Character

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.25, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

  Barbara

  Powerful, Gun, Knives

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

  Jane Austen

  Humility, Deceit, Pride And Prejudice Book

  Jane Austen, John Halperin (1975). “Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays”, p.129, CUP Archive

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• Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Evil, Choices, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.238

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• Forgiveness is key to enchanted love because it is key to living right, period. It is the capacity to see beyond the veil of personality and worldly illusions. No one is perfect or attractive every day. Forgiveness means we are capable of relating to someone on a deeper level than the ordinary self. And that we are committed to doing so no matter what the appearances are, no matter what the situation is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Love Is, Living Right

  Source: www.awarenessmag.com

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• To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

  Michael Card

  Love Is, Inner Beauty, Looks

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• Pride is a terrible and dangerous thing. It can take so many forms; it can even assume the appearance of humility. Pride can lead not only to self-exaltation, but also to self-abasement. The key to battling pride is not found in struggling against thinking too highly of ourselves or in striving to think of ourselves as lowly. The key is found in simply not thinking about ourselves at all, but setting our minds on Christ and the needs of others.

  Paul Washer

  Struggle, Humility, Pride

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Truth, Reality, Empathy

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• No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Suffering, Miserable Person, Wealth

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

  Jean Cocteau

  Thinking, Mirrors, Should

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• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

  Henry Fielding

  Fashion, Science, Inspire

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humility, Sunday, Men

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• The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

  Harry Houdini

  Well Dressed, Wells

  Harry Houdini (2007). “The Right Way to Do Wrong: An ExposT of Successful Criminals”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Moral

  Confucius (1950). “The Best of Confucius”

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

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Judging People, Long

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• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Two, Deception

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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