(1633 quotes found)
“Men in all ways are better than they seem”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow”
“We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause”
“Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible freedom!”
“It is only when the mind and character slumber that dress can be seen.”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
“Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.”
“It appears to me we haven't learned very much.”
Alexander Haig
“Beauty can be found in the most hideous places; if you remove the typical stereotypes of what beauty is, you will find the true beauty that dwells in everything”
Lauren Hinds
“This world is a scam of appearances. People who looks strict may be nice; yet a innocent looking person might just stab you in the back the next day”
Hazel