Quotes About Impression

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Average man is arrogant, because he is ever impressed by reason and always bows his head to it. Reason makes us believe that our challenges in life are to be avoided at all costs. This is to be a coward who does not have the self-respect needed in order to honour the marvellous gift of life.

Anstaunen ist auch eine Kunst. Es gehört etwas dazu, Großes als groß zu begreifen.

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me. Is it my age, I wonder, or the age we live in? I am not sure. Civilisations do collapse, after all, but on the other hand people grow old with rather greater frequency.

I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils,And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

Secondly, it is untrue, because it would lead to the opinion of the ancients who maintained that "whatever seems, is true" [*Aristotle, Metaph. iii. 5], and that consequently contradictories are true simultaneously. For if the faculty knows its own impression only, it can judge of that only.

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth.

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.

You get an image after you act in a film, but it is not necessary that you last long because of that image.

I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.