Good Peter Quotes

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Character is what you are in the dark.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

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

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

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

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

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?