Gustave Flaubert Quotes

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.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

What all this posturing and fake glamor results in is a vast detachment and cynicism on the part of the artists. Since it's impossible to have respect for an audience that'll take just about anything you care to dish out, and the impassive demeanor is so central to the role, a general numbnose is all that can be expected.

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film, I still want it to have the more cynical view of things, showing the irony and absurdity of things that we consider normal.

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

I think the celebrities today, not all of them, but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

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

Falsehood falsehood cures

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

It was lovely to see cynicism in one so young. It positively restored his faith in human nature.