#appearances

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#criticism #religion #truth #men

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#conversations #fun #good #i #interviews

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#fails #getting #getting old #high-level #i

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! ↗

— William Booth

#deceived #look #men #rock #sea

I would think that other people could see if you had other talents. I grew and expanded from the Elly May role. I was doing real estate and personal appearances and kept my foot in the door. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#could #doing #door #estate #expanded

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#deliberately #i #imagination #julia #left

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#always #appearances #as far as #circumstances #depth

Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#fads #history #sugar #sweet-tooth #why-tanning-is-stupid

Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve. ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#california #failure #los-angeles #materialism #society

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC. ↗

— David Selby

#appearances #because #contract #did #i