Sherwood Smith Quotes

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

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

I'm really good at pretending.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

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

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.