Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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.

The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

You cannot play naive if you're not.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

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

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

I've never been - and never will be - someone who 'plays the game' with people.

Some people say things they think you want to hear, and some people say the things they are actually thinking.

I just don't have a tolerance for people being fake, I don't think. Maybe especially when I think they have bad intentions.

I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.

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

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

You never monkey with the truth.

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

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.