Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

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

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

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

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

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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

I am not honest.

I abhor hypocrisy.

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

I'm a really bad liar.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

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

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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

I don't lie," I lied.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

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

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

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.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.