Phoniness Quotes

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

You are only pretentious if you are not sincere.

If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

The one to distrust is the person who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried and the trivial.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms or give them a pat on the back before they sailed headfirst to the ground? We are all catchers, and it's sad that she doesn't see it. Instead she sees the PHONINESS, she deplores the world even after I point out that I am in it.

You don't want to come in and be phony and be someone you're not.

Tinsel town is full of liars, show-offs and spineless hypocrites.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.