Appearance Quotes

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

Diane Arbus

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear

Samuel Johnson

We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting.

Michael Lipsey

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

George Orwell

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

Abraham Lincoln

I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more attempting. In like manner I made the most of my enjoyment s: and through I do not cast my cares away, I pack them in as little compass as I can, and carry them as conveniently as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

Steve Maraboli

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

Phaedrus

First appearance deceives many.

Phaedrus

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

English Proverb

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Leo Rosten

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

Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.

Charles Dickens

You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wear it when you're gone

Sisters Of Mercy

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld