Sunday 6 January 2013

Appearance

1. O wad some power the giftie gie us
    To see ourselves as others see us!
                                                                        -Burns, To a Louse

2. All the glisters is not gold.
                                                                -Cervantes, Don Quixote

3. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
                                                                                  -Chesterfield

4. Handsome is that handsome does.
                                                                     -Fielding, Tom Jones

5. Things are seldom what they seem,
    Skim milk masquerades as cream.
                                                                     -W.S. Gilbert , H.M.S.
                                                                        Pinafore

6. Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have gift of penetration.
                                                                                   -Machiavelli 

7. Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead man's bones.
                                                                        -Mathew. XXIII. 27

8. She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
                                                            -Swift, Polite Conversation

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