Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I'm really good at pretending.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

A humbug!!

FLATTERY is nothing, but false friendship, fawning hypocrisy, dishonest civility, base merchandise of words…

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics …

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.

The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.