Madeline Brewer Quotes

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Everybody is the way they are because of certain events that have happened in their life. Oftentimes you'll meet somebody who seems a certain way, and then you realize, 'Oh, that guy's actually the sweetest man I know. But I wouldn't have known that from the outset because that's hidden.'

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

You meet lots of people in your life, and sometimes you think that people are a certain way, and then they reveal themselves to be a different way.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

I think my own look makes people think I'm tough, but when they get to know me I'm very different.

I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmith.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

The way you see me on 'Jersey' is a snapshot, and you can't judge from a snapshot.

None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.

You can't judge people by their cover.

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.