Vernon Lee Quotes

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting.

I do tend to drape my real feelings with pretty words and different layers and stuff.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

I'm super-popular, so I had to pretend to be a loser, which was super-hard.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.

I nod like I’m listening,like we’re communicating, and she never knows the difference.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Character is very much a matter of health.

I tend to come from a more psychological - that's sort of my passion. I'm interested in the psychology of politics as well - and obviously I'm interested in what's going on in the world - but my passion is more the psychology of people.

All one's personality is embedded in gloves and hats after they've been good and used. Show me a glove and I'll tell you the character of its owner.