Terry Pratchett Quotes

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

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.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

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.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

All that glitters is not hovery.

An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

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.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

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

Appearances are deceptive.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved.

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