(1634 quotes found)
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances”
Oscar Wilde
“The burdens that appear easiest to bear are those that are borne by others”
Proverb
“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Jane Austen
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Thomas Paine
“Cultivate your curves--they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.”
Mae West
“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”
Plato
“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
Henry Fielding
“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Appearances are often deceiving.”
Aesop
