David Foster Quotes

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

… a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There is something about a phony that creeps me out so much.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

Tony Blair adopted the accent of the audience he was speaking to, which worked very well initially, but then voters began to perceive him as phoney. The 'man of the people' act is the height of condescension.

We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.