Quotes About First Impressions

In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, "Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

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.

We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit.

Chapter One Chapter

The day Travis met Lu he was in his best suit—dark blue, pinstripes, a necktie. Women his age would see right through his sweat and pretense. Any woman his age, she'd say, "What, you work at Men's Warehouse now?" Yeah, a woman would know a cheap suit was like an easy costume, but the girls didn't catch on.

Sometimes I meet someone, he rubs me the wrong way. Your mother meets the same person, she thinks he's peachy keen.

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.

For the most part we don't realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.

En cuanto se entablaba una conversación con él, no se podía evitar exclamar: «¡Qué hombre tan bueno y agradable!». Un instante después, uno ya no decía nada y, a los tres minutos, pensaba: «¿Qué demonios es esto?», y se apresuraba a alejarse, pues, si no, le invadía un hastío mortal.

Lord help women who shake hands like a dead fish.