C. S. Lewis Quotes

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

I'm really good at pretending.

I'm just very good at pretending.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

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

I don't like affectation.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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

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

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

I think the celebrities today, not all of them, but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.