Richelle Mead Quotes

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

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

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

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

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

You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

Very few people look the part and are it too.

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

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

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

Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.

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

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

[He] may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

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

Looks can be deceiving.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

Appearances are deceptive.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.