Hidden Qualities Quotes

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out.

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

There's so much more to being a 'top guy' than what you see on screen that I really learned.

We are attracted to people who express the qualities we deny or repress in ourselves.

There's a plain girl in everybody.

There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not... she's got balls of steel.

People don't realize a lot of things about me. A lot of things, they don't know.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Reverence awakens in the soul a sympathetic power through which we attract qualities in the beings around us, which would otherwise remain concealed.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.