False Pretenses Quotes

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire and where they make a desert they call it peace.

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

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

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.

This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.