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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