"How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes

“Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another....”
“Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.”
“You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.”
“If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.”
“It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.”
“The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co
“There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.”
“Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.”

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