If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.[Also known as:]You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Nothing is more deceitful, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.[Pronto adquirió el aspecto de desamparo propio de los vegetarianos.]
Well, I am pretty. There’s no denying that. Almost all spiders are rather nice-looking. I’m not as flashy as some, but I’ll do.
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous, that you realize just how much you love them!
And the moral of that is – ‘Be what you would seem to be’ – or, if you’d like it put more simpty – ‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’
Zits are beauty marks.
Yes, Yes, I know. Those who see me rarely trust my word; I must look far too intelligent to keep it.[Eh oui, je sais : ceux qui me voient se fient rarement à ma parole : je dois avoir l’air trop intelligent pour la tenir.]
Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Very few of us are what we seem to be.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.[Pour s’établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l’on peut pour y paraître établi.]
