Nicolas Cage Quotes

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

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

I hate a liar. Maybe because I'm such a good one myself, heh? Anyway, to find someone has told an out and out lie puts him on the other side of the fence from me for all time.

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

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

The truthful man is usually a liar.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

I don't like being lied to.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

An oath is the liar's retreat. Behind it falsehood puts on the robes of truth. The perjurer delights in swearing, for the act invests him with the appearance of honesty. An oath makes the tongue of vice as pure as the lips of virtue. It gives a rogue the weapon of the gentleman. It permits guilt to wear the dress of innocence. The man who is willing to tell the truth feels that his honesty is impeached when asked to take an oath