Quotes with appearance

  • Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
  • An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
  • Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
  • I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Appearance rules the world.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Charles Swindoll Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Plato First appearance deceives many.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Brene Brown If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Brendan Dooling Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Alec Guinness An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Andy Goldsworthy As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
    Andy Goldsworthy
    British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist (1956 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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