Quotes About Keeping Up Appearances

#1. No mom has it all together. We're all dealing with loose ends when it comes to motherhood and our children. Some of us are just better at keeping up appearances, that's all.

Julie Ann Barnhill

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

Skyla Madi

#3. The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

John Ruskin

#4. I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang!

L.M. Montgomery

#5. Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

A. C. Benson

#6. Life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.

Lauren Oliver

#7. Whatever they were dealing with was too important for them to care about keeping up appearances.

Liu Cixin

#8. Pretending or keeping up appearances for the sake of staying married won't bring healing to serious marital wounds any more than a Band-Aid can stop arterial bleeding.

Leslie Vernick

#9. My favorite song is happy birthday,
as that means there will be cake

Jane Yates

#10. It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is letting them down at the highest social levels.

Jonathan Rice

#11. There it was: suddenly, the tension of keeping up her appearances fell from her. Something flowed out of him physically, that made her feel inwardly at ease and happy, at home. With a woman's now alert instinct for happiness, she registered it at once. 'I'm happy when he's there!' Not

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

Martin Luther

#13. In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented.

John Bates Clark

#14. Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

Joseph Goebbels

#15. She had liked him for himself, that was indisputable. And yet, much as she had liked him she had liked the bourgeois standard of valuation more.

Jack London

#16. To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

Ayn Rand