Katie Melua Quotes

I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

The whole world is run on bluff.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

In politics you learn to always smile.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I'm just very good at pretending.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

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.

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

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.