Abraham Lincoln Quotes

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

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

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, " - or the best. Now I'm all confused.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.