William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

I was raised to be charming, not sincere.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

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. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Style equals pretense.

Canting hypocrisy

A humbug!!