Lana Del Rey Quotes

I was looking at these actresses sort of sitting around under umbrellas, people bringing them cold drinks and I was like, 'That looks so much easier than what I'm doing' and I was so wrong.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Things don't always look as they seem.

I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Looks can be deceiving.

Always look like you know where you're going, even when you don't.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

There are so many things that you think will look cool but then you look like an idiot!

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

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

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.