"A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know."
- Criss Jami
"You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you."
"When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith."
- Alberto Moravia
"I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though."
- J.D. Salinger
"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligati..."
"You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real."
- Thomas Bernhard
"Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere."
- Jane Austen
"Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking."
"Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return."
"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"
- Edith Wharton