Appearance Quotes

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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. — Khalil Gibran
Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look… — Saint Augustine
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the… — Jerome K. Jerome
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… — Franz Kafka
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. — Colin Powell
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you… — Tennessee Williams
The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing… — Barbara Ehrenreich
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been… — Anchee Min
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight. — P.G. Wodehouse
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P.G. Wodehouse
His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with… — Angela Carter
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the… — Amber Benson
Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have… — Elizabeth Gaskell
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Barbara Mertz
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Appearances matter â€” and remember to smile. — Nelson Mandela
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance. — Patrick White
Is," "is," "is"â€”the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything… — Robert Anton Wilson
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really… — Khalil Gibran

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