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Appearance Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
- To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
- No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer…
- A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
- Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
- In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in…
- In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may…
- In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world…
More Appearance Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. — Jane Austen
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in… — Douglas Bader
- Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll… — Roseanne Barr