Quotes About Appearances

The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star…

It has been said that some people go to church to eye the clothes and others go to close their eyes.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

She spent a fortune on clothes and jewelry, more than you would expect from a person with her salary. She got a new secretary every other year because she didn't want anyone to get too close. She was aloof, distant, always tough, but she never suspected me because I kept my distance.

Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.

inebriation brings about for an hour or two a state of subjective idealism, pure phenomenalism; everything is reduced to appearances and exists only as a function of our sublime self.

It was a street of conformity; where identical houses were painted at the same time every spring, a place of rules where gardens, parenthood and the future were planned with equal care, and even if everything went wrong the master plan remained in effect–keep up appearances, clip the hedges, mow the lawn, so that no one will suspect that there's a third mortgage and that Mother's headaches are caused by martinis not migraine.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

In the hymn the savior uses aretalogical self-predications ("I am" statements) to describe his—or her—multiple appearances in the world.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.

After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?

It's not just guys like those today. Even the pretty ones can be awful. Don't trust them just because they're pretty.

we, as consumers, are not completely satisfied with our scrutiny of women's appearances in TV and film. We also find it enjoyable to pit women against each other in fashion Hunger Games.

As usual, there were no obvious signs. And it would be a secret that my boyfriend had punched me in the face and terrorized me with a rifle for two and half hours - because it was more important that Mom keep up appearances than keep her children safe.

Health like character, can't be judged from appearances. Proper examination is needed in both cases.

Showing your teeth doesn't mean you're happy on the inside. Let your heart tickle with happiness and don't try to please people with outward appearances.

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things they show themselves as they are

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should.

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

Demasiada sinceridad te hace parecer falso.

Always remember a useful dictum: every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.

every man born of woman is three persons; what he appears to be, what he claims to be and,' he beamed round, 'what he really is.