Quotations About Appearance
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches-
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
Spring and All
The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.
D.W. Winnicott
Playing and Reality, 1971
Playing and Reality, 1971
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler
Erewhon
Erewhon
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
Jean Cocteau
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pretty is the queen that rules our land.
Carrie Latet
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
Jonathan Swift
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracián
It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson