Jeanine Basinger Quotes

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and shows in her own Her sense that she fills an envied place; And the visiting lady is all abloom, And says there was never so sweet a room. And the happy young housewife does not know That the woman beside her was his first choice, Till the fates ordained it could not be so.... Betraying nothing in look or voice The guest sits smiling and sips her tea, And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.

I'm trying to be really coy, and I'm not sure if I'm doing a good job.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Reputations are maintained by the outside world, and they're created by it, too, by and large. And they serve as a hell of a device for privacy, because the more people look for something that's not there, the less chance they have of violating who you are. It's like going out there with a mask on, without having to exercise your upper body to put it on.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

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

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

What ever you do-Don't get caught.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.