Quotes About Seeming

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, but seeming so, for my peculiar end: for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern, 'tis not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

When you travel like I did, vague about destination and with an open-ended itinerary, a holy-seeming openness takes over your character. It's the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic.

It's not what you do, but what you appear to do.

But I, who am of lighter mood, Will laugh to flee away.' For who would trust the seeming sighs Of wife or paramour?

Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

The one who made that poor shadow is long dead." The wolf in human-seeming almost glowed with power. "They have neither the learning nor the power to make him again. They would not have risked him if they had known who was here. I have made him free, my poor brother that was.

You see, there's a fundamental connection between seeming and being. Every Fae child knows this, but you mortals never seem to see. We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.