Henry Fielding Quotes

Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

In our culture, good looks are so important, and today he'd head straight for a plastic surgeon, but in Cyrano's time, the nose was who he was, and it didn't matter that he was a brilliant poet, a brilliant swordsman, a brilliant man. His nose defined him.

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.

Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.

I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

We are what we seem to be.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

Seeming to do is not doing.