You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
B.G. was just like his lyrics.
The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
You can't have style if you don't have substance.
However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.
Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?
You know, I'm a good guy. I think people look at me in a different way until they talk to me or get to know me.
I'm not trying to be different. To me, I'm just being myself.
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else-that would be fatal.
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
I don't like a whole lot of flash and superficial stuff; I want a woman that's all-natural, in her purest form.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.
I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.
What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.
