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Appearance Quotes - Page 12

There is no trusting appearances.

'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 5, sc. 2

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.42, Egmont UK

When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.

"Peter Andre strips to talk Fake Bake but does this kind of man-tanning turn you on or off?" by Gilly Ferguson, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.621, Modern Library