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Quotes About Appearances

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
~ Tycho Brahe
When you feel threatened by the Church, listen to the One who speaks from beneath those humble, human appearances: "It is I; be not afraid.
~ Peter Kreeft
To reach Bergomi at the top of appearances for Inter in Europe gives me pride.
~ Javier Zanetti
What a handsome pair! Strange thoughts assail me as it becomes plain to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name. The show of unity is only for the world.
~ Honore de Balzac
The actors in this scene, so full of interest, commonplace as it seems, were provided with bits of pasteboard striped in many colors and numbered, and with counters of blue glass, and they appeared to be listening to the jokes of the notary, who never drew a number without making a remark, while in fact they were all thinking of Monsieur Grandet's millions.
~ Honore de Balzac
The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.
~ Idries Shah
Prior to the online platform, I had to make sure I go around and have conversations and go to schools and make appearances. But now with online presence, I try to put out videos and different posts every day. I try to inspire.
~ BeBe Zahara Benet
I felt a sense of kinship, the bond of mothers raising children in a world that judged by appearances
~ Unknown
I was struck again by the fact that, for all appearances, this was a beautiful life. A perfect life. It's so easy to make assumptions, passing by other people's homes at a distance.
~ Unknown
Your journey is towards your homeland. Remember you are travelling from the world of appearances to the world of Reality. – Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
~ Jim Butcher
Beauty hides a multitude of sins, but underneath we are all the same.
~ Unknown
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Est-il indispensable d'être cultivé quand il suffit de fermer sa gueule pour briller en société
~ Unknown
Evil can disguise itself in piety and charity
~ Dean Koontz
I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and major movies, writing plays and other things.
~ John Kani
I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.
~ Mark Henry
I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.
~ Pauly Shore
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
~ Imelda Marcos
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It's always struck me as funny that guys with scars get a reputation for being hard. It's the ones that cut them you should be looking out for, right?
~ Unknown
Fake people are the worst people. They always appear to be happy, when inside they're so jealous & hurting over someone else's life.
~ Unknown
It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
~ Donna Tartt