A. C. Benson Quotes

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

I don't want to look like a bum.

The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

In corporate levels, it's all about tailoring your shirt and which tennis club you belong to and which watch you are wearing and what did you shoot last week?

I allow the public to believe that I have more influence with the King than I do in reality.

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

It is easier to seem worthy of positions one does not have than of those one does.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.