Berthold Auerbach Quotes

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

Appearances often are deceiving.

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

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

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.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

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

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

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

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.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

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.

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Things don't always look as they seem.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.