John Gay Quotes

No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

It's not an act, it's just my way.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

Be that self which one truly is.

The role that people think I play is not a role. When I go home, and I'm with my sisters, I'm the same way. When I'm with my boys, I'm the same way.

People put me in this ditzy, posh and stuck-up category, so it's been nice the public have been able to see the real me.

If I'm not authentic, I might as well as be dead.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you CAN judge a man by his heart. The smallest actions reveal the most about a hearts true color, so pay attention to them. Actions are the true words of the heart.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

The real man is the one Unit Existence.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.