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Appearance Quotes - Page 5

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.150

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

Performance's being...becomes itself through disappearance.

"Unmarked: The Politics of Performance". Book by Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts/Professor of English Peggy Phelan, Peggy Phelan, 1993.

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

John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.438, Pearson Education

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream

Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.8, Tharpa Publications UK