Appearance Quotes, Sayings about Looks
To be rather than to seem.
- Aeschylus
Appearance isnt everything but your life is.
Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Gloomy as night he stands.
- Homer J Simpson
Think not I am what I appear.
- Lord Byron
All that glisters is not gold.
- Cervantes
Handsome is that handsome does.
- Henry Fielding
First appearance deceives many.
- Ovid
The habit does not make the monk.
- John Dryden
Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
As large as life, and twice as natural.
- Lewis Carroll
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
- Aeschylus
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
- John Dryden
Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
- Freire Denise Cordelier
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
- Christopher Lasch
Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
- Alanus de Insulus
Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
- William S. Gilbert
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
- Bible Proverb
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
- Marguerite
The world more often rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
- François
By outward show let’s not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
- John Gay
Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
- Jean
Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.
- Robbie Williams
On some level any appearance on television can be seen as a product endorsement.
- Marc Maron
I guess the attention paid to appearance is something that belongs to tennis too.
- Daniela Hantuchova
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
- Ivy Compton
Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.
- Charles Churchill
But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you own a car, you change that every few years and that’s just what I’m doing with my appearance.
- Pete Burns
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.
- Thomas Gray
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
- Cesare Lombroso
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don’t shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
- Colin Powell
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
- Michael Korda
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
- Thornton Wilder
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Alice Walker
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
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.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller


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