Sebastian Horsley Quotes

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

Appearances do matter.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

I don't think I appear very cool to people who observe me on the ground.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Style is the most ephemeral thing I know. It's not about how effective you are it's about how you are effective.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.

. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

In politics, what appears is.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.