Oscar Wilde Quotes

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

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.

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

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.

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

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

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

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

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.

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.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

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.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.