Charles M. Blow Quotes

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

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

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

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

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

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.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

I don't really care about, Oh I really have to sell these things.

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.

I abhor hypocrisy.

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.