Emily Carr Quotes

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

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

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

[Ross Perot] thinks that proclaiming honesty is the same as being honest.

I doubt he knows himself when he’s not telling the truth.

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

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

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

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

I don't lie," I lied.

It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood.

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

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