Quotes About Impression

When a traveller talks to you perpetually about the splendour of his luggage, which he does not happen to have with him, my son, beware of that traveller! He is, ten to one, an imposter. Neither Jos nor Emmy knew this important maxim.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.

To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.

If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

so full of shapes is fancy

But when in other habits you are seen –   Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen!

The apparel oft proclaims the man

She left the window - and I said to myself, The lady is dark. She moved forward a few steps - and I said to myself, The lady is young. She approached nearer - and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words failed me to express), The lady is ugly!

posicionamiento", un concepto popular que se utiliza para indicar cómo debe ubicarse la gente en la mente de otros

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.

She was a dark young woman, a little above average in height, dressed in a close-fitting blue riding habit, a pale blue bodice, and a small tricorn hat. Connoisseurs would have disagreed as to whether she was beautiful, but few men would have passed her without a second glance.

The successful British air attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto, throwing modern first-class battleships out of action for many months, profoundly impressed the Japanese Navy with the power and possibilities of the new air arm, especially when combined with surprise.

Los cuadros de bajas expuestos en el capítulo titulado «Estadística sangrienta» muestran la falsedad de esta impresión. Sir Douglas Haig no fue bien servido en esta ocasión por su Servicio de Información del Gran Cuartel General196 la tendencia a decirle a un jefe de elevada situación solo las cosas que gusta de oír es una de las explicaciones más corrientes de una dirección

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.

He looked, as always, as if he had been carved from some durable form of wood by someone who was taking a correspondence course in sculpture and had just reached his third lesson.

I read 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes," he says. "It's about Russia.

Justo castigo Es verdad que tengo cierta facilidad de palabra y puedo sostener una conversación sobre un repertorio amplio de temas, pero me pilló por sorpresa que aquella soberbiamente proporcionada aparición reparase en mis exiguas dotes de forma tan rápida y completa.

Justo castigo Espero que me llames alguna vez. -¿Llamarte? Me iría a casa contigo ahora mismo. -Vaya, estupendo -comentó con coquetería-.No creí que yo te hubiese impresionado tanto.

To say that I was blown away by Mort Sahl—it would be like when I first tasted spare ribs.

I walked her home, chatting about this and that, trying to impress her with tales of my brief stint in the Navy SEALs throwing fish to our men each time they completed a successful mission.

What I do have, however, is a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and I propose that it is these specs, combined with a flair for appropriating snippets from erudite sources too deep for me to grasp but which can be utilized in my work to give the deceptive impression of knowing more than I do that keeps this fairy tale afloat.