Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cleopatra

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

E. W. Howe

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Klosterman

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Christopher Morley

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Moby

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

George Harrison

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

Jean Anouilh

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Jean Baudrillard

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

Patrick Henry

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Joseph Brodsky

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Little Richard

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Ozzy Osbourne

Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

Honore de Balzac

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Iris Murdoch

Anything that consoles is fake.

Keanu Reeves

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Koo Stark

I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes.

Kid Cudi

Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell

Jennifer Aniston

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Jason Ritter

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Eudora Welty

Beware of a man with manners.

Fidel Castro

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Fidel Castro

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

Frank Rich

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Harrison Ford

The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

John Waters

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

Sitting Bull

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Lisa Snowdon

I use fake tan myself with a self tanning spray.

John Ruskin

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.