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Letter "A" » appearance
«Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
appearance, greyhound, greyhounds
«The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Appearance,
Reality,
World
| Keywords:
appearance, governed, realities, to seem
«The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.»
Author: Ludwig Feuerbach
| Keywords:
appearance, copy, fancy, prefers, profane, profaning, signified, These Days
«We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.»
«Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Words,
Writing
| Keywords:
appearance, Considering, look at, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, sound, weight, weighted, written word
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
appearance, deride, derided, derides, dislike, dread, familiar, first appearance, hence, innovator, innovators, madmen, notions, persecuted, persecutes
«The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Friendship,
Opinions
| Keywords:
appearance, eternally, fluid, fluids, kinfolk, permanent, relations, The Sea
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