Romain Rolland Quotes

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

The world loves to be deceived.

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

In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

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.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

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.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.