Appearance Quotations
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| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. | |||
| - Samuel Butler | |||
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| Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. | |||
| - Lord Chesterfield | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. | |||
| - Jean Cocteau | |||
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| Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. | |||
| - Ivy Compton-Burnett | |||
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| It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. | |||
| - Baltasar Gracian | |||
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| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. | |||
| - Niccolo Machiavelli | |||
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| A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. | |||
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| 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 | |||