Appearance Quotes

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Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards,… — John Bunyan
Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's… — Michel Foucault
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. — Jose Marti
Appearances may be deceiving. — Aesop
He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance. — Sun Tzu
A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the… — Sun Tzu
A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response,… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions — David Hume
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But… — Claude Monet
We are deceived by the appearance of right. — Horace
Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Fran Lebowitz
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions… — William Hazlitt
We see things as we are, not as they are. — Leo Rosten
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. — Mark Twain
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… — Robert Southey
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. — Seneca the Younger
When disposition wins us, the features please. — Ovid
Neglect of appearance becomes men. — Ovid

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