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1

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Chaucer—House of Fame. Bk. I. L. 272.

(See also Cervantes)

2

Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.

Chaucer—Testament of Love. Bk. II.

(See also Erasmus)

3

Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right, no matter what they are.

Churchill—Rosciad. L. 299.

4

Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.

Everything is not gold that one sees shining.

Li Diz defreire Demise Cordelier. (Circa 1300)

(See also Cervantes)

5

We understood
Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought.
That one might almost say her body thought.

Donne—Funeral Elegies. Of the Progress of the Soul. By occasion of Religious Death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury.

6

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

Dryden—Hind and the Panther.

(See also Cervantes)

7

Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.

The habit does not make the monk.

 Quoted by Erasmus.

(See also Chaucer, Henry VIII, Rabelais)

8

Handsome is that handsome does.

Fielding—Tom Jones. Bk. IV. Ch. XII.

Goldsmith—Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. I.

9

He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.

Thos. Fuller—Life of the Duke of Alva.

10

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

Gay—Fables. The Packhorse and Carrier. Pt. II. L. 99.

11

Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.

W. S. Gilbert—H. M. S. Pinafore.

12

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts is lawful prize,
Nor all that glisters gold.

Gray—Ode on a Favorite Cat.

(See also Cervantes)

13

Gloomy as night he stands.

Homer—Odyssey. Bk. XI. L. 744 Pope's trans.

14

Judge not according to the appearance.

John. VII. 24.

(See also Juvenal)

15

Fronti nulla fides.

Trust not to outward show.

Juvenal—Satires. II. 8.

16

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras,
De juger des gens sur la mine.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

La Fontaine—Fables. VI. 5.

(See also John)

17

Même quand l'oiseau marche on sent qu'il a des ailes.

Even when the bird walks one feels that it has wings.

Lemierre—Fastes. Chant. I.

18

All is not golde that outward shewith bright.

Lydgate—On the Mutability of Human Affairs.

19

All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

Lydgate—Chorle and Byrde.

(See also Cervantes)

20

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Macaulay—On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. (1831)

21

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

Matthew. XXIII. 27.

22

All is not gold that glisteneth.

Middleton—A Fair Quarrel. Act V. Sc. 1.

(See also Cervantes)

23

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsse.

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen.

Ovid—Ars Amatoria. 99.

24

Non semper ea sunt, quae videntur; decipit
Frons prima multos: rara mens intelligit
Quod interiore condidit cura angulo.

Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phædrus Bk. IV. Prol. 5.

25

L'habit ne fait le moine.

The dress does not make the monk.

Rabelais—Prologue. I.

(See also Erasmus)

26

All hoods make not monks.

Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 23.

(See also Erasmus)

27

All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.

Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 7. L. 65.

28

Looked as if she had walked straight out of the Ark.

Sydney Smith—Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. I. Ch. 7.