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“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Confucius Quotes |
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“How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes |
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“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Thomas Paine Quotes |
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“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.”
Alice Walker Quotes |
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“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”
Dame Edith Sitwell Quotes |
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“To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Siege of Thebes
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“Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Siege of Thebes
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“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.”
Bible Quotes Source: John (ch. VII, v. 24)
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“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like
unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. XXIII, v. 27)
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“Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.”
Bible Quotes Source: Song of Solomon (ch. 7, v. 4)
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“O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: To a Louse
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“Think not I am what I appear.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, sc. 12)
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“As large as life, and twice as natural.”
Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson) Quotes Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. VII)
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“All that glisters is not gold.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXXIII)
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“But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (preamble, l. 17,362), The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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“Hyt is not al golde that glareth.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The House of Fame (bk. I, l. 272)
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“Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no
knight.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: Testament of Love (bk. II), (Thomas Usk, Chaucer's contemporary, is generally accepted as author)
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“Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right, no matter what they are.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: The Rosciad (l. 299)
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“Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
[Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]”
Freire Denise Cordelier Quotes Source: Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier (circa 1300)
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“We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought
That one might almost say her body thought.
- Dr. John Donne,”
Dr. John Donne Quotes Source: Funeral Elegies--Of the Progress of the Soul--Death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury
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“All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther
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“The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Hind and the Panther
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“Handsome is that handsome does.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. XII), also see George Granville
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