Bad Impression Quotes:

My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.103, Macmillan

topic: People, First Impression, Firsts, Bad Impression, Good First Impression

A good impression is great. But a bad impression is even better.

- Ted Cruz

topic: Impression, Bad Impression

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 me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

topic: Night, Knives, Giving, Pandemonium, Give Me A Chance

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was a bit more fiery in those days. At the time I got kicked out, I knew exactly what I was going to do and didn't even bother to go back for a leaving certificate. Then I was singing in folk clubs around Birmingham and playing jazz in clubs on Sundays.

- Steve Winwood

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: School, Sunday, College, Birmingham, Certificates

[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.

- Katharine Whitehorn

source: The Observer, August 07, 1966.

topic: Weather, Long, People, Bad Impression

Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.

- Jeanne Moreau

topic: People, Fever, Ridiculous, Bad Impression, Stage Fright