Phony Quotes
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We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.
— Oliver North
If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
— Brian Austin Green
People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.
— Marilyn Monroe
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
— Christine McVie
You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!
— John F. Kerry
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
— Jennifer Tilly
A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
— Jeff Lindsay
All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.
— John Mellencamp
I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.
— Coco J. Ginger
I'm a real phony, one of those half-baked hot-house plants we're growing nowadays, instead of the honest-to-God two-fisted women we should be ...
— Elaine Dundy
A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!
— Latif Mercado
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
— Arthur Miller
The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets ... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.
— Jerry Seinfeld
What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.
— Elie Wiesel
What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists — Phil Volatile
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists — Phil Volatile
Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees.
— Jay Leno
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
— Justin Chon
When you're way too real, fake people be like: You're a trip. I want somebody with real game (lies).
— T.F. Hodge
Kids can spot a phony a mile away.
— Fred Rogers
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
— Manuel Puig
The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.
— Richard Yates
It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
— Janine Di Giovanni
She probably knew what a phony slob he was.
— Anonymous
Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
— Bradford Dillman
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
— Charles R. Swindoll
There are phony teachers who profess all kinds of things, and I think you will figure out real fast who they are. They just don't feel right.
— Frederick Lenz
I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.
— Mr. T
People striving for approval from others become phony.
— Ichiro Suzuki
Nowadays, the game is all bugged out,
Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out. — Daniel Dumile
Phony, like back when Hammer tried to come thugged out. — Daniel Dumile
Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
— Don Henley
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
— Wendy E. Long
Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff? - Aunt Edna
— Janet Evanovich
Don't support the phonies, SUPPORT THE REAL
— Tupac Shakur
He was the kind of phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question
— J.D. Salinger
I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
— Mike Tyson
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
— Geoff Rickly
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.
— Paul Krassner
Worship that does not lead to neighborly compassion and justice cannot be faithful worship of YHWH. The offer is a phony Sabbath!
— Walter Brueggemann
I have been able to sniff out a phony.
— Jennifer Coolidge
The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessings. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
— A.A. Lewis
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
Phony never led anyone to Jesus.
— Mark Hall
Just once I'd like to meet a fella who isn't a phony. Somebody who doesn't wanna buy me a fur so he can show me off to his boys.
— Libba Bray
Things, gentlemen, are ripe for a phony Messiah, and when he comes, it's sure to be a bloody business.
— Kurt Vonnegut
He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did think everyone was a phony.
— Sarah Mlynowski
Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk,
Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk — Inspectah Deck
Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk — Inspectah Deck
See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.
— Van Morrison
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
— Jimmy Johnson
I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
— Rachel Kushner
I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.
— Orson Welles
I think he was pretty surprised to hear from me. I once called him a fat-assed phony.
— J.D. Salinger
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
— Kenzaburo Oe
In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.
— Lena Olin
Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.
— River Phoenix
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
— Barry Hannah
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
— Oscar Levant
One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.
— Louisa Hall
Just saw the phony ad by [Ted] Cruz. Totally false. More dirty tricks. He got caught in so many lies. Is this man crazy?
— Donald Trump
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
— Elizabeth Bowen
The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.
— Marie Lu
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.
— Rudy Giuliani
You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
— Frederick Buechner
A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
— Anthony Liccione
Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.
— Mitt Romney
I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
— J.D. Salinger