Quotes about appearances

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.

I don’t hate her personally, though if she were enough of a person to be worth such a strong emotion I think I easily could. What I hate is what she represents: the willingness of human beings to be reduced to a slick visual package, like a new television set—up-to-the-minute casing, same old works.

He regarded himself as inhabiting a jungle in which behind masks of civilised behavior and conventional politeness everybody, doctor or not, was out for what he could get. No means of enhancing his reputation, status and income escaped him.

It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.

"Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard."

Nothing has been falsified—except the impression that it gives.

Great error, seen up close, can look like true greatness.

She always dressed well, but he recognized the signs of insecurity; certitude was inversely proportional to the amount of makeup.

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councillors, councillors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows, and kings who looked like thieves.