Semblance Quotes
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
Under a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
The Wheel will turn again. She would eventually be back on top of the world. For now, she was grateful for her semblance of stability.
— Lynne Cantwell
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
— John Sterling
Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
— William Godwin
What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.
— Katherine Paterson
All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.
— Robert Downey Jr.
VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)
— Richard Donner
I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of ... I guess 'hope' is the right word?
— Eric Bachmann
Finding any semblance of unity would require extraordinary pattern-recognition skills, a keen imagination, and a hearty sense of humor
— Paul Halpern
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.
— John Oliver
To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners
— Jonathan Chamberlain Williams
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case. — William Cowper
Its semblance in another's case. — William Cowper
A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
— Pam Brown
Like" and "like" and "like"
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf
but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing? — Virginia Woolf
Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.
— Robert Gordon Sproul
Why couldn't women understand that hate could not hurt if there was no semblance of love?
— Lorraine Heath
The heart of the hypocrite is hid in his breast he masketh his words in the semblance of truth, while the business of his life is only to deceive.
— Akhenaton
These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
— Fernando Pessoa
the sun's last remaining thread fell across my face, bleaching any semblance of confidence I'd hoped to see.
— Jessica Knoll
You don't look so hot, Adrien."
"Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day."
His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it. — Josh Lanyon
"Yeah, well I'm having a bad heart day."
His upper lip curled in a semblance of a smile. "Tell me about it. — Josh Lanyon
It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.
— Lynn Flewelling
Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.
— Pope Francis
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
— Honore De Balzac
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
— Nick Hornby
I need the concept of mercy for me to have some semblance of self-admiration. So in real life, I'm probably somebody who is more devout.
— Jim Gaffigan
Please, by all the blessed saints and their bladders, tell me you two didn't ... Have you lost all semblance of intelligence? (Syn)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington