Lord Byron Quotes

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

I'm really good at pretending.

I'm just very good at pretending.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a great hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.