keeping up appearances Quotes

“But if anyone had ever walked in and plinked a key or sniffed the artificial tropical flowers or straightened a tie in the gleaming mirror, they sure would have been impressed at the perfect life of an architect from Hoodhood and Associates.”

″‘Is she nice?’ ‘Yes, and she thinks we are, so we always try and keep up appearances when we see her.’

and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.

“Even the smooth surface of family-union seems worth preserving, though there may be nothing durable beneath.”