Fake And Phoney Quotes & Sayings

We now live in the era of fake consensus, or phoney populism, a condition in which galleries and homes are seen to succeed best where they manage feelings of non-difference. — Andrew O'Hagan

So few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter. — Emma Goldman

Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. — William Shirley

It's a real triumph taking a painting out from a pit-hole with a loose and open approach. Some aspects in its favour are those strange accidents that can produce amazing results. — Bill Vaughan

I went into the men's room and stared in the mirror at my face in disgust. I looked like I knew something, but it was a lie, I was a fake and there's nothing worse in the world than when a man suddenly realizes and admits to himself that he's a phoney, after spending all his time up to then trying to convince himself that he wasn't. I stared at all the sinks and pipes and bowls and I felt like them, worse than them: I'd rather be them. — Charles Bukowski

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud
and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Being fit involves working on all aspects - your body, what you eat, and how you think. A sculpted body is not of much use if you're not there mentally. And similarly, if you're not eating well, it will affect your physical and mental set-up. After all, a six-pack might look good, but that's pretty much it! — Randeep Hooda

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together. — Hannah Kent

Hippies are so phoney and fake. — George Harrison

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. — Ivan Turgenev

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella

Nothing mortal makes last; nothing the gods make endures forever. — Megan Turner