Appearances Are Deceiving Quotes

#1. Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Laura Riding

#2. Appearances can be so deceiving, such a poor measure of a person. Admonished the Savior, 'Judge not according to the appearance.

Thomas S. Monson

#3. Appearance over substance was a cultural theme in China

Paul Midler

#4. He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined.

George MacDonald

#5. Appearances often are deceiving.

Aesop

#6. Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

John Ortberg

#7. Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

Matt Haig

#8. Male animals have a finite sum of energy that they can spend on testosterone or immunity to disease, but not both at the same time.

Matt Ridley

#9. Appearances can be deceiving, but the true colours of your soul remain.

Angelica Hopes

#10. I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

Man Ray

#11. Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

George Horace Lorimer

#12. Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.

Tiger Woods

#13. The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess Of Longford

#14. You want to watch him, Julia," he told me. "He may look harmless enough, but appearances can be deceiving." Geoff grinned. "That's slander, that is. You know I always behave like a perfect gentleman." "Right then, Sir Galahad," Iain said dryly.

Susanna Kearsley

#15. The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special.

Hugh Jackman

#16. Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

Natasha Leggero

#17. Appearances are often deceiving.

Aesop

#18. There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.

Ellie Lieberman

#19. Appearances may be deceiving.

Aesop

#20. Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

#21. One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Andrew Mason

#22. Whoever had said that appearances were deceiving was only partially right; they could also be deadly.

Julie McElwain

#23. From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.

Belle Malory

#24. It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

Karrine Steffans

#25. Perhaps that's its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances ... " He paused. " ... are often deceiving.

Julie Anne Long

#26. If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway - is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Patricia Briggs