Quotes About First Impressions

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

Blackpool is absolutely huge in Strictly but when you come from South Africa and you have your first impressions and you arrive in Blackpool, well it's different. It's different let's put it that way. But what I'll also say, if you walk into the ballroom it's absolutely spectacular.

It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Stella explained that when he had arrived, because of his English accent, she had assumed that he was me, and had asked where his fridge was. She didn't tell me what his reply was, and we can only hazard a guess, but I was impressed that he had been prepared to stay the night. It is surely a brave man who goes ahead and checks into an establishment where the first question is 'Where's your fridge?'. Especially if, as he had done, you had arrived by motorcycle.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

She knew that he had never seen her before. She knew the value of first impressions.

The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

I have been extremely positive with almost all new people. And why, let me ask, shan't I be? When you think, you have a lot of to say for someone you know for a short time.

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

Two Englishmen meeting for the first time instantly seek the differences between them, the doubts and reservations, the message in the other's accent.

It definitely happens more often than you would think when someone comes up and you're like: "He's really attractive and seems really nice," and it just doesn't work if he smells bad.

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

May I bring you a drink to go with those warm nuts, Mr. Sedaris? this woman looking after me asked - this as the people in coach were still boarding. The looks they gave me as they passed were the looks I give when the door of a limousine opens. You always expect to see a movie star, or, at the very least, some better dressed than you, but time and time again it's just a sloppy nobody. Thus the look, which translates to, Fuck you, Sloppy Nobody, for making me turn my head.

For an American, though, Australia seems pretty familiar: same wide streets, same office towers. It's Canada in a thong, or that's the initial impression.

If that woman looks like a million dollars and puts it right in your face, that one you get away from," R.D. told him. "That one in the corner who is quiet? That's the one you go after.

Señor, le presento a mi compañera de lecho y dígame si su interior no es tan hermoso como su exterior. Cristina de Suecia

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

We knew you were approaching," Pandora said to Devon, "from all the happy voices we could hear in the entrance hall." "He's not accustomed to people exclaiming happily when he arrives," West said gravely. "Usually they do it when he leaves.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

If you judge a book by it's cover, you might miss out on an amazing story.

People are known by the way they walk, talk and balk.

People see what you are before they hear what you are.