John Stuart Blackie Quotes

Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

Virtue is not photogenic.

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes.

You can be dressed the best and have a wicked heart.

The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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.

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.