Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.

If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best.

The way that you present yourself visually totally dictates your audience and everything that anyone thinks about you.

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

You know, as far as public perception goes, if you get seen with some people one time, everyone thinks you're in that group.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

You only have one first chance to make one first impression that lasts a lifetime.

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.

I've always cared about my personal style and the way people perceive me. I know a lot of times people don't get the opportunity to talk to me, so they're just going to see what I wear, see how I'm dressed, see how I present myself.

...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you even open your mouth.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

You're still being looked at as somebody who - it's a very complicated issue.

People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while; you just hold on to that early impression.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

People believe that if you're concerned about the clothes you're wearing and the larger aspects of your appearance, that it's anti-intellectual. I say "Hogwash!" The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.