Quote Tag

You don’t find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel’s uniform, it tells you something.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.