Keep Up Appearances Quotes

#1. My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

Anchee Min

#2. Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living - in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.

Vironika Tugaleva

#3. Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

#4. People live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere. It is very cheerful to live among people whose faces are not soured by the east wind, or wrinkled by the worrying effort to "keep up appearances," which deceive nobody;

Isabella L. Bird

#5. To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#6. If you wish to be thought a good estate manager, or a good horseman, or a good physician, or a good flute player without really being one, just imagine all the tricks you have to invent just to keep up appearances. You might succeed at first, but in the end you're going to be exposed as an impostor.

Xenophon

#7. I have to keep up appearances. I do roll with angels now.

Ashlan Thomas

#8. I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

Dusty Springfield

#9. Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Charles Churchill

#10. I am shocked at the openness with which people reveal their secrets and personal failures. Until I realize: not everyone has been raised in a culture of perfection; they don't see a benefit to the shellac required to keep up appearances.

Nicole Hardy

#11. I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

Damon Hill

#12. If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

Bruce Robinson

#13. In everything we do, it is our hearts that make the difference, not our outer appearances ... keep both eyes closed and instead open a third eye
the eye that sees the inner realm.

Elif Shafak

#14. I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

Anthony Daniels

#15. When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Gus Van Sant

#16. If you're a website and you want to get attention, you can Hiterlize anything.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

#17. Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods.

Pam Leo

#18. Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

F.W. Boreham

#19. Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Colin Powell

#20. If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#21. I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#22. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call.

Mark Lawrence

#23. I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.

Katherine Heigl

#24. He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Sun Tzu

#25. When you make a wrong turn you must make two right turns. One to correct the wrong turn and one just for growth.

SBG Mental Health Club

#26. I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

Jill McCorkle

#27. In thirty years Iraq too has gone from being among the most modern and secular of Arab countries -with women working, artists thriving, journalists writing- into a squalid playpen for a megalomaniac.

Fareed Zakaria

#28. If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

Michael Bennett

#29. You know, Sarah Palin is the Governor of Alaska, you know that. And she's a lifelong member of the National Rifle Association. So great, is what I'm thinking, another vice president that shoots a drinking buddy; just get ready.

David Letterman

#30. Some tea?" "I wouldn't say no, sir." When

Janette Oke

#31. I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

Norman Maclean

#32. If things are not what they seem - and we are forever reminded that this is the case - then it must also be observed that enough of us ignore this truth to keep the world from collapsing.

Thomas Ligotti

#33. It is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

Mary E. Pearson

#34. I'll accept that in order to unravel my story, I need to be destroyed first.

Calia Read

#35. Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

Lou Holtz

#36. I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

Lydia M. Child

#37. That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.

Skyla Madi