Quotes About Phonies

#1. When he greeted them on Day 16, he said, "Thanks so much, such great food for us." This time he gave a false, fake laugh. Phony. I thought of my mother . Her disdain for phonies was even greater than her disdain for the lazy.

Shannon Kirk

#2. When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

Carl Paladino

#3. You shall find dear, that the world is full of two-faced people and phonies.'.. And Uruvi was to discover a cruelly superficial world, which she had failed to recognize.

Kavita Kane

#4. I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies - I felt like saying "Howdy cousin," to everybody who walked by.

Gary Reilly

#5. 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 you did.

J.D. Salinger

#6. We are now surrounded, outmanned, and outgunned by a generation of phonies, grasping for acceptance through appearance and behavior that have no productive impact on the world.

Greg Gutfeld

#7. Wouldn't it be great if all career phonies, faux friends or opportunists could be identified quickly in professional networking circles by wearing signs like "Career Dip", "No Loyalty Card" or "Opportunist Knocks"?

Torry Martin

#8. Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

Rochelle B Lazarus

#9. Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.

Sparky Anderson

#10. 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 something, but usually they are just messes.

Anne Sexton

#11. I failed to understand what was so enviable about having a position that a pack of phonies sucked up to. Dishwashing suited me because nice people were nice to me and assholes were assholes to me, yet no one ever sucked up to me.

Pete Jordan

#12. It's painful to believe that the would-be 'public servants' you're forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously and with such a straight face that you know they've just got to believe you're an idiot.

David Foster Wallace

#13. Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.

Christopher Krovatin

#14. From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore

#15. Watch for phonies, keep your enemies close nigga watch your homies

Tupac Shakur

#16. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

Bette Davis

#17. They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.

Ben Hecht

#18. In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

Kyle Richards

#19. Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL

Tupac Shakur

#20. It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a golden Cadillac ...

J.D. Salinger

#21. The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.

Charles Manson

#22. A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies.

Etta James

#23. It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

Julie Burchill

#24. I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

Walker Evans

#25. 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

#26. Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

David Ogilvy

#27. Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.

David Sedaris

#28. The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified.

Fred Tomaselli

#29. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.

J.D. Salinger

#30. See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals ...

Arthur Miller

#31. Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.

E. Nesbit

#32. With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.

Brian Spellman