Ellen Hopkins Quotes

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

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

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Appearances are deceptive.

Seeming to do is not doing.

Looks can be deceiving.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

First appearance deceives many.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

But we're lost in a world of appearances now.