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“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.” John Green, Paper Towns

“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector.” Plato, The Republic

“But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty—it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life—froze it.” Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.” T. H. White, The Once and Future King

“desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it—but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the...” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“great robbers always resemble honest folks. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand. ” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“It’s so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.” John Green, Paper Towns

“Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence . . . The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“you may turn into an archangel, a fool or a criminal—no one will see it. But when a button is missing—everyone sees that.” Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

“beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Sticking feathers up your butt . . . does not make you a chicken.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“It's better to always wear the same thing and know that people are liking you for the real you and not the you your clothes make.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.” Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“To Jane the strange apparition of this god-like man was as wine to sick nerves.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

“In Washington the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it; in fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality.” Henry Kissinger, White House Years

“We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.” François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a...” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.” Epictetus, Discourses

“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.” Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.” L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

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Pride and Prejudice (1)
Macbeth (1)
Oliver Twist (1)
The Republic (1)
Flappers and Philosophers (1)
The Beautiful and Damned (1)
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Les Misérables (1)
Around the World in 80 Days (1)
Walden (1)
Moby-Dick (1)
To the Lighthouse (1)
Fight Club (1)