Men should be what they seem; or those that be not, would they might seem none!
‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage and pious action we do sugar o’er the devil himself.
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.
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?
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.’
All that glisters is not gold.
Zits are beauty marks.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
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.]
