#Appearance Vs Reality Quotes

“Because this age and the next ageEngender in the ditch,No man can know a happy manFrom any passing wretch,If Folly link with EleganceNo man knows which is which.”

“Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.”

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”

“We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.”

“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.”

“It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.”

“Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.”

“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”

“Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.”

“All that is gold does not glitter.”

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.”

“The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.”

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

“Behind every smile there's teeth.”

“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”