Lemmy Quotes

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

It would be a mistake to think something is wonderful just because it looks great.

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

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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

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

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

I am not as simple as I look.

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

People think I'm very nice, you know. And I'm not as nice as they think.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

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

Things are not always as they seem.

People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

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

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

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

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.