Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
Seeming and being are not one and the same.
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.
To seem natural rather than to be natural.
All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.
Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,Or but as mild as she is seeming so,Then were my hopes greater than my despair,Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.
