Appearance

Appearance is the apparent likeness representing an external show. They are the way something appears to others.

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• All that glisters is not gold.
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter XXXIII. Googe—Eglogs, etc. (1563). Udall—Ralph Royster Doyster. (1566).

• Handsome is that handsome does.
  • Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones (1749), Book IV, Chapter XII. Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1768), Chapter I.

• All hoods make not monks.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 1, line 23.

• All that glisters is not gold;
  Often have you heard that told;
  Many a man his life hath sold
  But my outside to behold.
  • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 7, line 65.

• Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book II, Canto VIII, Stanza 14.

• Will she pass in a crowd? Will she make a figure in a country church?
  • Jonathan Swift, Letter to Stella (Feb. 9, 1710).

• She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
  • Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I.

• A man of sense can artifice disdain,
  As men of wealth may venture to go plain.
  * * * * * *
  I find the fool when I behold the screen,
  For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen.
  • Edward Young, Love of Fame, Satire II, line 193.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 34-36.

• Esse quam videri.
  • To be rather than to seem.
  • Latin version of the Greek maxim, found in Æschylus, Siege of Thebes.

• Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum.
  • Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
  • Alanus de Insulis, Parabolæ, in Winchester College Hall-book of 1401–2.

• O wad some power the giftie gie us
  To see oursel's as ithers see us!
  It wad fræ monie a blunder free us.
  And foolish notion;
  What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
  And ev'n devotion!
  • Robert Burns, To a Louse.

• Think not I am what I appear.
  • Lord Byron, Brute of Abydos, Canto I, scene 12.

• As large as life, and twice as natural.
  • Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, Chapter VII.

• But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
  Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Chanounes Yemanne's Tale. Preamble, line 17, 362.

• Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, House of Fame, Book I, line 272.

• Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, Testament of Love, Book II.

• Appearances to save, his only care;
  So things seem right, no matter what they are.
  • Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 299.

• Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.
  • Everything is not gold that one sees shining.
  • Li Diz de freire Denise Cordelier (Circa 1300).

• We understood
  Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
  Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought.
  That one might almost say her body thought.
  • John Donne, Funeral Elegies, Of the Progress of the Soul, by occasion of the Religious Death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury.

• All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
  • John Dryden, Hind and the Panther.

• Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.
  • The habit does not make the monk.
  • Quoted by Erasmus.

• He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.
  • Thomas Fuller, Life of the Duke of Alva.

• By outward show let's not be cheated;
  An ass should like an ass be treated.
  • John Gay, Fables (1727), The Packhorse and Carrier, Part II, line 99.

• Things are seldom what they seem,
  Skim milk masquerades as cream.
  • W. S. Gilbert, H. M. S. Pinafore.

• Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
  And heedless hearts is lawful prize,
  Nor all that glisters gold.
  • Thomas Gray, Ode on a Favorite Cat.

• Gloomy as night he stands.
  • Homer, The Odyssey, Book XI, line 744. Pope's translation.

• Judge not according to the appearance.
  • John, VII. 24.

• Fronti nulla fides.
  • Trust not to outward show.
  • Juvenal, Satires, II. 8.

• Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,
  De juger des gens sur la mine.
  • Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
  • Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, VI. 5.

• Même quand l'oiseau marche on sent qu'il a des ailes.
  • Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings.
  • Antoine-Marin Lemierre, Fastes, Chant. I.

• All is not golde that outward shewith bright.
  • John Lydgate, On the Mutability of Human Affairs.

• All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.
  • John Lydgate, Chorle and Byrde.

• He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, on Moore's Life of Lord Byron (1831).

• Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
  • Matthew, XXIII. 27.

• All is not gold that glisteneth.
  • Thomas Middleton, A Fair Quarrel, Act V, scene 1.

• Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ.
  • They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.
  • Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 99.

• Non semper ea sunt, quæ videntur; decipit
  Frons prima multos: rara mens intelligit
  Quod interiore condidit cura angulo.
  • Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
  • Phædrus, Book IV. Prol. 5.

• L'habit ne fait le moine.
  • The dress does not make the monk.
  • François Rabelais, Prologue. I.

• Looked as if she had walked straight out of the Ark.
  • Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Volume I, Chapter 7.

• A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
  • Syrus, Maxims.

• Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
  • An immense, misshapen, marvelous monster whose eye is out.
  • Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), III. 658.

• Of the terrible doubt of appearances,
  Of the uncertainty after all, that we may-be deluded,
  That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,
  That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only.
  May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,
  The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known.
  • Walt Whitman, Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances.