Quotes About Phony

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

He's all hat and no cattle.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.

created the first fake company approximately

I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!

The truth has power to end every tyranny.....They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do. You don't have to be a grizzled Cod Warrior to see that a notion of progress that depends on labor camps, police informers, and making everybody equally poor to achieve justice and equality is phony.

I say, "I hate this 'keepin' it real' stuff. What's it all about, anyway? Real is what is. If you have to keep something the way it is, then it's not going with the natural flow. That's lying. I mean, if you can't change because you think this is the way it always was and anything else would be phony, that's stupid.

outwardly nice but inwardly horrid.

This is New York: skyscraper champion of the world where slickers and know-it-alls peddle gold bricks to each other and where the truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye. —BEN HECHT, Nothing Sacred, 1937

A nite or so after I went in Nick's again and was having a cup of coffee and once more I heard somebody out in the kitchen yell "right" and a couple minutes later out came a jelly omlet and once more Nick looked at me and said could I eat a jelly omlet and I said I could force one and he assured me that there was nothing phony about it but go ahead and eat it and it was as good a jelly omlet as any jelly omlet I ever ate.

How many reality shows can you watch? They're so obviously phony.

Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

Win normally drove a Jaguar, but he had smashed a 1983 Chevy Nova into the van. Totaled. Not that it mattered. Win had several such vehicles he kept out in New Jersey to use for surveillance or activities just east of legal. The car was untraceable. The plates and paperwork were all phony. It would never lead back to anyone. Myron

as they say in Texas, all hat and no cattle.

Ersatz Israel

I'm a fake intellectual.

Its Barnum & Bailey world just as phony as it can be, But it would't be make-believe if you believed in me

Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony.

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 a trifle insincere.

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.

He pushed the steelframed glasses up on his perfect nose. "I don't pay much attention to the selfhelp movement, but even I've heard of you. Is the doctorate real or phony?" "I have a very real Ph.D. in psychology, which qualifies me to make a fairly accurate diagnosis: "You're a jerk. Now, leave me alone.