Alphonse Karr Quotes

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

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

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

I think our danger is that we talk one thing, and we feel and act another thing.

You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.