| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
|---|
| Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence |  |
| He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | |
| "If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces." | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | |
| . . . she stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | |
| "This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." | William Shakespeare | Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
| No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | |
| "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial." | William Shakespeare | Othello | |
| All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | |
| "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' " | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous | |
| "It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be." | Gilbert Parker | The Battle Of The Strong | |
