Mark Twain Quotes

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

Everybody looks at his clothes to see what he's wearing.

Style equals pretense.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Dress does not give knowledge.

Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.