Francisco de Quevedo Quotes

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

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

Things are not what they seem.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

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.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Things are not always as they seem.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

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

Looks can be deceiving.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

My name is James Guckert. Well, when you read it, it's always pronounced some other way.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

First appearance deceives many.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Seeing is not always believing.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.