Amber Benson Quotes

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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.

I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

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

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

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.

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

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

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.

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearance. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.