Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

People know when you're frontin'.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

I'm just very good at pretending.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

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.

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.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

I'm a really bad liar.

People for the most part can smell lies.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

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