Appearance Quotations | Page 5

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

He shouldn't be testifying, ... He's got the appearance of being somebody who was there on the scene. He wasn't there.

He should be making an appearance before too long to talk to everybody.

His only objective in selling the stock was to eliminate the appearance of a conflict of interest.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

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.

The public has a vested interest in being sure that public employees are carrying out their duties in a professional way. In some of the cases, we received the entire file and then in others we didn't get anything. That has the appearance that there's a different standard for different types of employees.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.