Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Is there anything we can appear to do?

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

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

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

If you are not the best, then pretend you are

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

I am not what you see and hear.

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

Beauty is a mute deception.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

No one is who they pretend to be

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.