Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

I live by the code 'Kill them with kindness, blood everywhere;' for me, it's always about being the nicest kind of guy.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Beauty is only skin deep.

I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

The Tao of Jen was very much the Tao of hiding everything that didn't look good. The Tao of Jen is wearing a cocktail dress with underwear with holes in it. The Tao of Jen is all style and no substance.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

Some people look like they're working hard but they're not. Some people who are working hard don't look like it.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

Appearances often are deceiving.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.