Appearance Quotes

Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.

We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.

Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

I'm not too vain - I sometimes take pride in my appearance, but I stick to the rule never to spend longer than a girl getting ready.

It is the business of a virtuous clergyman to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

When disposition wins us, the features please.

Whatever We Hold in Thought Comes True in Our Experience; Like Attracts Like; we experiment with the Law of Changing Appearances, to make our outer world reflect our inner.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.

When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Appearances are deceiving.

I can change my appearance quite easily just by changing my hair. So I can adapt quite well.

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.

My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.