(1633 quotes found)
“Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance”
Jean de La Fontaine
“When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance”
Victor Borge
“I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances”
Confucius
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.”
Claude Monet
“First appearance deceives many.”
Ovid
“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as if it is, infinite”
William Blake
“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
George Orwell
“I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.”
Alan Greenspan
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Lee Simonson
“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but”
James Cook
