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| A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. | | Thomas Paine | |
| Appearances are often deceiving. | | Aesop | |
| Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord | | Bible | |
| But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him | | Bible | |
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| First appearance deceives many. | | Ovid | |
| For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
| I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances | | Confucius | |
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| If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. | | Aristotle | |
| It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. | | Thornton Wilder | |
| It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. | | Colin Powell | |
| Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration | | Niccolo Machiavelli | |
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| Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. | | George Orwell | |
| She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. | | Woody Allen | |
| The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear | | Samuel Johnson | |
