Things Are Seldom What They Seem Quotes

#1. Things are seldom what they seem.

W.S. Gilbert

#2. It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Amelia Barr

#3. We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

Alan Brennert

#4. There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

James Lasdun

#5. And yet, quite often, she comes to me. Seldom to have anything explained, but often to tell me something.
When she comes over to me, I sit down on the floor. It does not seem right to tower over her when she is talking to me. Instead I sit down, then our heads are on a level.

Peter Hoeg

#6. This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.

Isabel Allende

#7. Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

Marvin J. Ashton

#8. Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Elizabeth Bishop

#9. We cannot fathom technology that is unknown to us, and we seldom consider things that seem impossible to us.

Christopher Dunn

#10. [P]laces that seem lovely at first glance may actually be sinister, but places that feel sinister seldom turn out to be lovely.

Andrew Solomon

#11. I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

Alan Bennett

#12. As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream."

W.S. Gilbert

#13. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. Although history may therefore seem like a series of inevitable events, the actual future is seldom foreseen.

David G. Myers

#15. Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.

Virginia Woolf

#16. While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

Donovan L. Graham