33 Quotes Tagged: appearance

First impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you'd better think twice before devouring your misery.

Security, alas, can give
A threatening impression;
Too much defense-initiative
Can prompt aggression.

I am only the person the greatest number of people think I am.
(1999)

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

There are people who believe that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it are worth six of it.

Reputation is a hallmark. It can remove doubt from pure silver and it can also make the plated article pass for pure. And so people without a hallmark of their own are always trying to get the loan of somebody's else's.

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

"Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

(...) I, for one, prize less
The name of king than deeds of kingly power;
And so would all who learn in wisdom’s school.