Appearance Quote by Harry S. Truman

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

— Samuel Johnson

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has,…

— James Nathan Miller

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

— Patrick Süskind

“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.”

— John Barth

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took…

— Virginia Woolf

When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He…

— Joseph Heller

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he…

— Maya Angelou

“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold…

— Sherwood Anderson