Appearance Quotes
1421 quotes by 1054 authors
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
— Khalil Gibran
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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
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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
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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
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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
— Colin Powell
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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
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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
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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
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As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
— Barbara Mertz
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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
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Appearances matter — and remember to smile.
— Nelson Mandela
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The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
— Patrick White
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Is," "is," "is"—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
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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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