Jacques Derrida Quotes

I'm really good at pretending.

I can fool people that I was educated.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

It’s a phoney war

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

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

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

Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included.

I always felt like, when you're lying, you're kind of pretending to be something you're not.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

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.

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

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

I can fake anything.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.