Amy Tan Quotes

The world is a lie...not you and me.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The world's scorn he might sometimes forget, but the knowledge of his own perfidy is undying.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not.

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies.

It's a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be...

There is no trusting appearances.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I'm really good at pretending.

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

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

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

The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

The connection between humbug and politics is too long established to be challenged.