Andre Gide Quotes

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I am not honest.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

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.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

I don't lie," I lied.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

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

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

I abhor hypocrisy.

Like many people, I have a fascination with lies and the people who tell them. I wouldn't say I've never told a lie, but I don't think I've ever told one without both assuming I would be found out and feeling absolutely rotten about it.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.

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

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.