Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Seem
Thus ’tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.
Goldsmith.—Epilogue to “The Sisters.”
Men should be what they seem.
Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to Othello.)