Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

I remember when I first started modeling, and I would read interviews with people. Then I would see them, and they would always say something entirely different to a crowd of people than they would say privately. I always found that really offensive.

Tinsel town is full of liars, show-offs and spineless hypocrites.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Hollywood is full of guys who say one thing, and then do another.

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

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

You talk one way, you live another.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker." We are behaving in a bizarre manner.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

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

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.