Vernon Howard Quotes

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.

I'm just very good at pretending.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

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

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

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.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I'm really good at pretending.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Well, it made perfect sense that I originally wanted to be an actor because every Sunday, we walked into church and we acted like we were the happiest, most together family.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

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

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

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

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

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

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

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

People know when you're frontin'.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.