appearance Quotes

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

topic:hiding truth appearance

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

topic:appearance

“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:appearance humility

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:appearance others

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

topic:self appearance personality

“The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.”

― T. H. White, The Once and Future King

topic:courage appearance cowardice

“you may turn into an archangel, a fool or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

topic:appearance others

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:experience appearance

“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

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