Rafael Sabatini Quotes

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

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

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

I abhor hypocrisy.

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

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

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

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

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

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

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.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.