Blaise Pascal Quotes

I've been living a lie all my life.

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.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

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

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.

For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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