Can Judge A Book By Its Cover Quotes & Sayings

Don't judge a book by its cover. Mom is always saying that, but most of the time, I think that's exactly what people are asking us to do: Please. Judge me by my cover. Judge me by exactly what I've worked so hard to show you. — Aaron Hartzler

remember the old adage "You can't judge a book by its cover"? I'm here to tell you that's complete bullshit — Tim Castleman

Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to. — Simon Garfield

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover. — Richelle E. Goodrich

People still judge a book by its cover, Avery. And your story? It's beautiful. You're beautiful. But I'm nothing but a ripped out page, graffiti where some should never be. Don't taint your story with me. — J.M. Darhower

It is certainly true that you can't judge a book by its cover, nor can you judge a book by its first chapter - even if that chapter is twenty years long. — Gregory Boyle

You can't judge a book by its cover," he said. "No," said Watts. "But you can tell how much it's gonna cost! — David Bischoff

If you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors.
Books are not like people. Books are safe. — Kathryn Erskine

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book. — Dolly Parton

You can judge this book by its cover. — Tom Icon

You cannot judge a book by its contents. — Jon Stewart

You can't judge a book by its cover, can you? — Cao Cao

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside. — Jay Ryan

Never judge a cover by its book. — Fran Lebowitz

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone? — E.A. Bucchianeri

I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day. — Ozzy Osbourne

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. — Malcolm Gladwell

Never judge a book by its cover like never judge or underestimate a person on the outside." -
Kate — Kate

They say you can't judge a book by its cover. I've learned that you can't judge a man by the one before him, either. — Adriana Locke

Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else. — Edwin Rolfe And Lester Fuller

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its publisher. — Ljupka Cvetanova

It may be true that you can't judge a book by its cover," Daisy G. had told Blister just last summer. "But the cover tells you something about the book and don't ever pretend it doesn't. — Susan Richards Shreve

(Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen. — Cindy Woodsmall

Our enemies had a tendency to take one look at Charlotte, with her short, slim figure and her pretty, delicate Asian features, and assume she was weak. A low level threat.
Ten seconds later, the look of surprise on his face as he lay on his back, winded, eyes rolled up and watching her support Kate towards the stairs, said he'd possibly learnt his lesson. Never judge a book by it's cover. — Violet Cross

Never judge a book by its cover, be the judge of what's inside. . . — Pearl

If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment and try not to judge anybody at all. Even much better if you don't have to believe in 100% with that quote. — Toba Beta

I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book? — Stephen Colbert

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes. — Adam Lambert

You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill. — Gunplay

Never judge a book by it's cover, the cover is great but the words are even greater. — Ms. Venom

Never judge a book be its cover — Edwin Rolfe

The same way we don't judge a book by its cover, we shouldn't judge people by their looks. — Eva Garcia

You have heard, many times I'm sure, that you should not judge a book by it's cover. But just as it is difficult to believe that a man who is not a doctor wearing a surgical mask and a while wig will turn out to be a charming person, it was difficult for the children to believe that Advanced Ocular Science was going to cause them anything but trouble. — Lemony Snicket

Never judge a book by it's cover. — Anonymous

You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one. — Jayce O'Neal

You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look. — Action Bronson

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Never judge a book by its cover or a movie. — Anonymous

Don't judge a book by its cover. — Liz Braswell

The Apple Marketing Philosophy" that stressed three points. The first was empathy, an intimate connection with the feelings of the customer: "We will truly understand their needs better than any other company." The second was focus: "In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities." The third and equally important principle, awkwardly named, was impute. It emphasized that people form an opinion about a company or product based on the signals that it conveys. "People DO judge a book by its cover," he wrote. "We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities. — Walter Isaacson

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines. — Axl Rose

Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags. Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any section. — O. Henry

I was distracted, thinking about what she'd said, until she got to this last part. "Sherman?" I said.
She nodded. "That's John and Craig's friend. He's visiting from Shreveport."
"Sherman from Shreveport?" I said. "This is the guy you're determined I go out with?"
"You can't judge a book by its cover!" she snapped. When I slid my eyes toward Forbidden, she grabbed it up, shoving it back under the bed. "You know what I mean. Sherman might be very nice. — Sarah Dessen

Never judge a book by its cover; a movie by its book; or a video game by its movie. — Ashwin Sanghi

Never judge a book by its cover, its contents may have the inspiration one needed for progression — L. Neal

We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being ostracised because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover. — Elton John

George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book. — Elton John

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel. — Stewart Lee

I feel like you can't judge a book by its cover, that's always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world. — Andre Hueston Mack

Never judge a book by its cover, especially when the book is a person, was the lesson. — Mary Higgins Clark

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover. — Kid Cudi

Except you can't judge a book by its cover. Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl. A girl or a monster or both. Not everyone in a story gets a happy ending. Not everyone who reads a story feels the same way about how it ends. And if you go back to the beginning and read it again, you may discover it isn't the same story you thought you'd read. Stories shift their shape. The two sisters are waiting for the moon to come up, which is not the same thing as waiting for the sun to go down. Not at all. — Kelly Link

Never judge the others
for each one wears a cover
for their version of the original.
(talking about individuals in the stream of consciousness that gives rise to each one of us.) — Jay Woodman

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts. — Shannon Hale

I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good. — Zac Goldsmith

I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover! — Onyx

Graphic designers judge a cover by its book. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Never judge a book by it's cover or who you're going to love by your lover. — Steven Tyler

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to literature I always judge books by their covers. First the cover will catch my eye, then I read the back of the book, and then finally the first page. — Jane Green

Never judge a book by the cover, you may miss out on what could be your favorite book — Sharon Watkins