Jim Butcher Quotes

Things don't always look as they seem.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

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.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

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

Things are not always as they seem.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

First appearance deceives many.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Trust not too much to appearances.

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

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

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