First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.


"On the Knowledge of Character". - Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners (1821-1822)

William Hazlitt Quotes

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or...

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or...

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or...

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or...