Mary Wesley Quotes

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I'm really good at pretending.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I'm just very good at pretending.

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

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

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.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

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.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

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

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.

Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.