Exterior
External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.
External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.
Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.
The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
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Exterior Quotations
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
Vernon Howard
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
Stephen Gardiner
The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
Pope Paul VI
Exterior Translations
exterior in Dutch is aanblik, aanschijn, buitenkant
exterior in Italian is esterno
exterior in Norwegian is utvendig, ytre, utside
exterior in Swedish is yttre, utsida, yttre
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