Quotes About Fakery

Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made up like dolls and they can't show the effort they're making, yet under the surface of the water it's a struggle and a sacrifice.

If we consider Clifford Irving's Fake! a fake itself — a fake biography of a fake painter, revealing only what the faker, or fakers, care to reveal, and dumping a great deal of disinformation on us in the process — then we must regard Orson Welles' F For Fake as a fake movie about a fake biography of a fake painter. But perhaps we would more accurately dub it a fake documentary about the impossibility of ever making a "true" documentary.

Exactly so! declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. I am a humbug. But

I can't even pretend to play golf.

I don't understand 'The Only Way Is Essex' and 'Made in Chelsea': the way they pretend there's no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

I don't even watch basketball. I can't even pretend.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

Deception is everywhere.

Sances lost their popularity with the invention of infrared photography when it became possible to see what mediums were doing in the dark. Nowadays, spiritualists fakery is more ambiguous and subtle.

It's not cool to have your name in print when it's not the truth.

Omnes dii gentium daemonia sunt; Dominus autem coelos fecit. Deliver us, O Lord, from religiosity and Godlessness alike, lest we wander in fakery or die of boredom. Restore to us Thyself as Giver and the secular as Thy gift. Let idols perish and con jobs cease. Give repentance and better minds to all pagans and secularists; in the meantime, of Thy mercy, keep them out of our cellars.

In time, the expression "Potemkin village" came to mean a sham, or something fraudulent, erected or spoken to conceal an unpleasant truth. As such, it became a cliché; now, it is part of the language.

Similarly, the hit car show Top Gear has twice been caught faking a scenario where an electric car runs out of power during a review or feature to make for a more entertaining storyline.19

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in art. There's a lot of naked women and men, and there's intrigue, there's fakery. It's a real microcosm of the larger world.

I liked to watch the real salesmen-- the old-time travelers. A lot could be learned from those guys. Those fellas had plenty of charm. They used to say that sincerity sells-- and if you can fake that, you've got it made.

You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery.

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.