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Civilisation is hooped together, brought
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

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance? — Alison Weir

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

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

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life. — P.D. James

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

high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently — John Milton

the sun's last remaining thread fell across my face, bleaching any semblance of confidence I'd hoped to see. — Jessica Knoll

They give you the semblance of success, I give you the reality ... — Socrates

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place. — Saadi

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

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

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? — Bram Stoker

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

Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption? — Oakley Hall

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior

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

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. — John Calvin

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity. — Walter Benjamin