Robert C. Eckhardt Quotes

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

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.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

Style equals pretense.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

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.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.