Appearance Quotes

It is not all gold that glareth.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth… But we seem to have no other.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

It is surely better to be arrogant than to look it. The arrogant character insults you only now and then; the arrogant look insults you continually.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

You are only what you are when no one is looking.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do, but inside, the terrible freedom!

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.