Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.
What are these so withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth, and yet are on’t?
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Very few of us are what we seem to be.
To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.[Pour s’établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l’on peut pour y paraître établi.]
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
There’s no better credit-card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
There’s many a man hath more hair than wit.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.[Le monde récompense plus souvent les apparences du mérite que le mérite même.]
The painting is almost the natural man: For since dishonour traffics with man’s nature, he is but outside; these pencill’d figures are even such as they give out.
