Anthony Trollope Quotes

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

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

What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I love people who are real.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

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.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I don't like fake people.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

I don't talk for the sake of talking and I don't talk with a forked tongue.

I don't tell lies. I don't need to.