Horace Walpole Quotes

If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

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

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

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.

All that is gold does not glitter.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

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

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.

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Men who have a lot of charm have it in place of something real that you are eventually going to want from them and find that they do not have.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.