Phony Quotes

144 quotes by 132 authors

The one person to distrust is the one who never makes a mistake. Either he is a phony, or he stays with the safe, the… — Peter Drucker
On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good… — Kevin DeYoung
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. — Etta James
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner
In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me. — Kyle Richards
In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And… — Shulamith Firestone
But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to… — Robert Ruark
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do… — Paul Gallico
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see… — Matthew Scully
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights....We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have… — Ron Paul
Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we… — Stephen Jay Gould
Joe: You don't want me, Sugar. I'm a liar and a phony. A saxophone player. One of those no-goodniks you keep running away from. Sugar:… — Marilyn Monroe
Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows. — Big L
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. — Anton Szandor LaVey
If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped. — Brian Austin Green
It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed… — Pierce Brosnan
Writer's block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work. — Jerry Seinfeld
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards. — David Ogilvy

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