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Samuel Butler (top)
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
- Samuel Butler


Lord Chesterfield (top)
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
- Lord Chesterfield


Maurice Chevalier (top)
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
- Maurice Chevalier


Jean Cocteau (top)
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
- Jean Cocteau


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


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Baltasar Gracian (top)
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
- Baltasar Gracian


Niccolo Machiavelli (top)
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (top)
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


P.J. O'Rourke (top)
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
- P.J. O'Rourke


Jonathan Swift (top)
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
- Jonathan Swift


Daniel Webster (top)
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.
- Daniel Webster