Horace Mann Quotes

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

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

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

... a lying son of a bitch.

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

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.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

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

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

A hypocrite is one who plays two parts consciously for his own ends. When we find fault with other people we may be quite sincere, and yet Jesus says in reality we are frauds.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.