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Quotes About Appearance

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.
~ Morrissey
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
~ William Shakespeare
For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.
~ Jacques Cazotte
Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
~ Karl Marx
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
~ George Augustus Henry Sala
The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.
~ Moby
The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.
~ Alex Kingston
There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.
~ Amber Benson
The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
None of this has ever been or will ever be; all is an appearance, all is an illusion. Illusions are truth. All illusions are real. We say illusion, meaning that they're shadows.
~ Frederick Lenz
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.
~ Henry David Thoreau
her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth
~ Janet Fitch
And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.
~ Joan Collins
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
~ Mason Cooley
VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
~ Richard Donner