Anna Jameson Quotes

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

I abhor hypocrisy.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

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

I don't lie," I lied.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

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

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

You can know something is a lie when it has no love in it.

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

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.