Misleading Impressions Quotes

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

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

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

I'm a lot less serious than people think, it's probably because the way my face is put together.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

I think a lot of people can come across looking messier than they are, but that's what reality TV is unfortunately.

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

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

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

Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

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.