Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Style equals pretense.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

The thing about hipsters is that they take very seriously trying to make themselves look like they don't take themselves seriously.

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.