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To be rather than to seem.
[Lat., Esse quam videri.]
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Siege of Thebes
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Siege of Thebes
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Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous
judgment.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: Bible
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!
Author: Robert Burns
Source: To a Louse
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Think not I am what I appear.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, sc. 12)
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As large as life, and twice as natural.
Author: Lewis Carroll (pseudonym of Rev. Charles L. Dodgson)
Source: Through the Looking Glass (ch. VII)
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All that glisters is not gold.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
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.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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.
Author: Charles Churchill
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.]
Author: Freire Denise Cordelier
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,
Author: Dr. John Donne
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.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther
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The habit does not make the monk.
[Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]
Author: John Dryden
Source: Hind and the Panther
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Handsome is that handsome does.
Author: Henry Fielding
Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. XII), also see George Granville
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a
passage through it.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Life of the Duke of Alva
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By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.
Author: John Gay
Source: Fables--The Packhorse and Carrier (pt. II, l. 99)
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Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Author: William S. Gilbert
Source: H.M.S. Pinafore
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Handsome is that handsome does.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. I), also see Henry Fielding
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Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts is lawful prize,
Not all that glisters gold.
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Old on a Favorite Cat
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Gloomy as night he stands.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 744), (Pope's translation)
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Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
Author: Alanus de Insulus (Alain de l'Isle)
Source: Parabolae
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Source: None
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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.
Author: Frank A. Clark
Source: None
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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
Author: Fournier
Source: None
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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Author: Margaret Fuller
Source: None
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Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Source: None
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Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Author: Thomas Robert Dewar
Source: None
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A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
Author: Dr. Gregory
Source: None
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A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.
Author: Rona Jaffe
Source: None
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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.
Author: Henry Jacobsen
Source: None
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Style is the image of character.
Author: Edward Gibbon
Source: None
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Author: Alexandre Dumas Pere
Source: None
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Author: Paula Poundstone
Source: None
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: None
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They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.
Author: Joyce Grenfell
Source: None
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The South Wind
has for the evening
donned
jasmine scent.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
Author: Beau Brummel
Source: None
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Author: Yousef Karsh
Source: None
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UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Author: Elayne Boosler
Source: None
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Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
Author: Vincent Van Gogh
Source: None
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Source: None
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There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
Author: Jennie Jerome Churchill
Source: None
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I dress for women and I undress for men.
Author: Angie Dickenson
Source: None
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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Author: Linda Ellerbee
Source: None
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Author: St. Bernard
Source: None
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