Appearance Quotes

1421 quotes by 1054 authors

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all. — Amanda Hocking
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance… — Henry David Thoreau
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women with a bulge… — Joshua Ferris
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This… — Daniel Handler
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival… — H P Lovecraft
None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book… — Marcel Proust
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on… — Paul Theroux
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable. — Sherwood Smith
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and imagesâ€¦ It is not a conscious recording of… — William Carlos Williams
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. — Oscar Wilde
In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes… — Byron Katie
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Do you see the slightest evidence anywhere in the universe that creation came to an end with the birth of man? Do you see the… — Daniel Quinn
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin
Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. — John Irving
If only-if only, Hastings, you would part your hair in the middle instead of at the side! What a difference it would make to the… — Agatha Christie
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of… — John Steinbeck

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