(1622 quotes found)
“Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.”
English Proverb
“It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”
Mae West
“The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.”
Daniel Webster
“Every silver lining has a cloud.”
Mary Kay Ash
“What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose”
Plato
“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession”
Isaac Watts
“Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance”
Jean de La Fontaine
“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide them all”
William Shakespeare
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