Edmund Spenser Quotes

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

All is not gold that glitters.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

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

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.

Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but when you take them out of the paper cone you realise that most of them are rotten inside.

This car was a very pretty lie.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dirty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

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

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.