Artifice Quote by William Hazlitt

“..:"Do not let your adornment be merely outward-arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel. Rather, let it be the hidden person…

— Rafael Garcia

“This is so true that we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society.…

— Albert Camus

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be…

— Thalia

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other…

— Albert Camus

It is great and manly to disdain disguise; it shows our spirit and proves our strength.

— Edward Young

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who…

— Anonymous

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others…

— Samuel Johnson

We're not pretending to be somebody else. We're being ourselves; we're doing what we do, and people have trust that they put in that,…

— Jonathan Scott