Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

I abhor hypocrisy.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

I'm not good at fake.

I have little time for sincerity.

If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

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

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

I'm see-through. And I'm the worst liar of all time.

I try not to fake anything.

I am what I am and I'm a horrible liar. I can't do it. I'm just very candid.

If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.