VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

To be rather than to seem.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!

Think not I am what I appear.

As large as life, and twice as natural.

All that glisters is not gold.

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.

Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.

Everything is not gold that one sees shining.

We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. - Dr. John Donne,

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

The habit does not make the monk.

Handsome is that handsome does.

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.