Impression Quotes
1118 quotes by 875 authors
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show……
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I don't mind if you forget me. Having learned my lesson, I never left an impression on anyone.
— Steven Morrissey
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Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I'm a big believer in first impressions," he finally said. "Tell me what your first thought was when Jason walked into the courtroom." Taylor took…
— Julie James
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A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one,…
— Osamu Dazai
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
— Yann Martel
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A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!†“You did!†she retorted. “And although I…
— Georgette Heyer
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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
— Thomas Mann
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The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is…
— Howard Pyle
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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a…
— Oscar Wilde
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Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give…
— Cassandra Clare
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Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting…
— Alan Goldsher
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I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
— Boris Pasternak
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If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
— Jane Austen
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