Phony Quotes

144 quotes by 131 authors

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. — River Phoenix
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. — Manuel Puig
It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll… — Chloe Sevigny
I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I… — Vivian Stanshall
People striving for approval from others become phony. — Ichiro Suzuki
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed… — James Wolcott
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. — J D Salinger
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are youâ€™ll do your best thinking that way. And thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve always… — Harry S. Truman
Iâ€™d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman Iâ€™d even known, for three days under a phony name,… — Denis Johnson
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. — J D Salinger
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear… — J D Salinger
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries… — Oriana Fallaci
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle… — Roald Dahl
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most… — Hunter S. Thompson
Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood… — Brennan Manning
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window. — J D Salinger
Whatâ€™s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isnâ€™t any difference between people â€”well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If… — Christopher Isherwood
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. — Kenzaburo Oe
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know… — Anne Sexton

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