Oscar Wilde Quotes

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Style equals pretense.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

There's a lot of shiny, pretty objects out there that when you actually touch them, they just fall apart. And it's like, you need to be authentic, you need to be yourself.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

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

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...

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

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.