Appearances Are Deceiving Quotes

“Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?”
― Patricia Briggs, Silver Borne

“There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.”
― Ellie Lieberman, Society's Foundlings

“...when things are very beautiful and comfortable on the surface, it can be harder to see the ugliness underneath.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Poor darling," he said, shaking his head, "you're not cold-hearted enough to be a detective. You only want the disagreeable people to be guilty, and I'm afraid you'll find that life isn't like that.”
― Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell

“That just goes to show that you never can tell about a person by guessing," Frances informs her niece. "That's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“The average gym junkie today is all about appearance, not ability. Flash, not function. These men may have big, artificially pumped up limbs, but all that the size is in the muscle tissue; their
tendons and joints are weak . Ask the average muscleman to do a deep one-leg squat-ass-to-floor-style-and his knee ligaments would probably snap in two. What strength most bodybuilders do have, they cannot use in a coordinated way; if you asked them to walk on their hands they'd fall flat on their faces.”
― Paul "Coach" Wade, Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength

“To fight against these falsehoods, though, one needed to be able to see past the present-day and very male-oriented distortion lens to the underlying truth. Beyond question, Molly Valle could do this. A woman whose surface appearance, eyeglasses and conservative clothes, fit the schoolmarm stereotype to a T. Yet she had sloughed off that exterior and society’s restrictions as effortlessly as she had her clothes, and during their lovemaking, she had not only kept up with him but often passed ahead of him. With other women, he had seen the embers of passion but never the flame. Tonight, he had witnessed the bonfire.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“That was when I saw it: behind the beauty and fake innocence was something else, something cold and calculating. Even when she smiled, I could see sin so deeply ingrained in her that no cardigan could hide it. [...] To anyone else, she was pure and naive, but this girl was hiding something. I knew only because the same sin had dwelled in me my entire life. The difference was she held it deep within her, and I let mine out of cage on a regular basis.”
― Jamie McGuire, Walking Disaster

“From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out.”
― Belle Malory, The Twelfth Keeper

“When it comes to human suffering, appearance is everything.”
― Nadja Sam

“When you crop a photo, you tell a lie.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“Don't be fooled by the appearance of the doors! You can meet extraordinary beauties behind a shabby door and a wonderful door can be opened to a dump!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is the sanity you feel, and there is the sanity you display. Most people don’t really care about the first one; they just wanted permission to avoid your crisis.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“Looking the part is not ‘being’ the part.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Appearance over substance was a cultural theme in China”
― Paul Midler, Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

“If you judge from appearances here,' replied Madame de Chartres, 'you will be often mistaken; what appears is seldom the truth.”
― Madame de La Fayette, The Princesse de Clèves

“It’s funny how rarity can be attractive to some, but a nuisance to others.”
― William Staikos, Untold Deception

“But there is a dark side to humans that lurks in the background, and it’s only revealed if you know where to look. Like a shadow that is not always visible, the dark secrets of these men were just hiding beyond the cursory view of their politically correct appearances.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade: Paladine Political Thriller Series

“Slimness is not the same as fitness, Skinship is not the same as kinship.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament

“Amantes Assemble Sonnet 56

Don't look for someone you can talk sense with,
Find someone with whom you can talk nonsense.
Call it friendship, call it love, call it whatever,
Role of a companion isn't sensibility but acceptance.
That's why I walk around in shabby clothes,
That’s how I get to know about people's true nature.
Everybody likes to butter up those in suits,
Those who smile at the people with nothing,
are the ones with real substance of character.
If you wanna find out who your enemies are,
Walk fancy and wait for the butter to pour in.
If you wanna find out the humans amongst the leeches,
Walk like a vagabond with your shirt not tucked in.
Be cautious of those who applaud your accomplishment.
And never lose those who walk by you in hopelessness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“Sometimes things were just for show, they only looked right. Until you changed the way you looked at them.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“I don’t care if you dress in trousers every day, and never, ever put on a lick of makeup. I don’t care if you love high heels and vintage perfume bottles. I don’t care if you are attracted to boys, girls, both or nobody in particular. What we wear isn’t what makes us women. Who we want to kiss isn’t what makes us women. Tell me this, if you’d tell me what kind of woman you are: Are you being kind to other? To yourself? Are you thinking new ideas? Are you exploring? Are trying new things? Are you showing courage, curiosity and generosity? Good. Because those are the things real women do, no matter what shoes you wear.”
― Jennifer O'Toole, Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

“Appearances are shallow, but those who seek depth will discover the Ocean.”
― Cristina Imre

“Thus ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice