Quotessence
Home / Topics / Appearance Quotes

Appearance Quotes

Browse 1949 quotes about Appearance.

Related topics

PeopleMenIfsWorldLooksThinkingKnowsRealityMayWayDoeMindFirstsGivingSeemsWantPersonsShouldHas BeensHumansMadeRealWellsLittlesDifferentFactsMatterBodyCharacterEyeFormOutward AppearanceTryingYearsArtMeanHeartShowsJudgingKindFacesLongMomentsBelievePersonal AppearancePhysical AppearanceWholeLyingSelfSoulFeelsSurfaceCareImportantReasonScienceStillsObjectsOrderTwoWould BeActionCertainNeedsResultsSometimesIdeasIllusionMightArtistBeautifulGirlSpiritValuesAgeImaginationLightStatesTogetherClothesHairI CanIndividualMereNaturalPlayUniverseUseBehindsBigsBitsChildrenCommonDesireFallFeelingsHandsPersonalityQualitySuperficialmore

Appearance Quotes

“By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.”

KindWholeEyeKindnessTaughtDisciplineLipsAppearanceGenuineWelcomeFriendlySparksGood WillBosomsFashionableCountenanceSemblanceEmanate
Book:The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated
Create image

“Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.”

UseRememberDeathEvilClearReadyOughtConvictionAppearanceInevitableAvoided
Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
Create image

“Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth.”

IfsLyingInterestStudyEventsAppearanceSurfaceSeedsHistorianBiographiesDelightfulUtilityTrue LifeToo DeepGreat Events
Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
Create image

“Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.”

ObjectsAnxietyCuriosityAffectionAppearanceSatisfiedAppetiteSuperficialRestlessness
Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Create image

“The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.”

EarthAttentionShareMoonAppearancePhasesProximity
Book:From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
Create image

“Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.”

Has BeensReligionCommonPracticeWonderfulDevilAngelAncientSaintAppearanceTalesOperationsLegendary
Book:The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...
Create image

“Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.”

WayFirstsMadeChristianReligionChurchSimpleAnswersLeaderShareParticularHigherProtectConceptsCriticismRaisesAverageAppearanceBelieverGapsAcademicBiblicalScholarship
Author:John Shelby Spong
Create image

“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.”

LooksSelfHandsEyeLeftHeavenStepsHeroRaisesAppearanceArguingDramaticLook UpProtestPensGossipProfessorsAncestorBrutalMuseHer EyesUnclesAuntAlcoholicsMaidsSteps ForwardAmazementPropheticEnsembleGigglePapaLeft HandPedantic
Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
Create image

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”

ShouldKindMayActionFallFoundPrinciplesGaySucceedWeaknessShould HaveStructureInjusticeAppearanceRuinsLastingBetrayFlourishingTreacheryFirmnessPerjury
Book:All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...
Create image

“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”

WellsTermAnswersDealsKnownFireHeardSubjectsOffersSpeechArgumentEmptyCongressAppearanceDebateFormerMannersDiscussionOpponentsAttributesSenateSpeakersImpressedRhetoricQuotationsWell Known
Book:American diary, 1898
Create image