Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

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

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

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

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

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

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

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

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

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.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

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 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.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.