Jean Hanff Korelitz Quotes

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Never let people see what you want, because they will not let you have it. Never let anybody see what you feel, because it gives them too much power. You're probably better off not showing weakness whenever you can avoid it, because they'll go for you.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Whenever a man is alone with a woman the devil makes a third

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.

I think blokes definitely sweat on most things when it comes to being questioned by women.

If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.