1. The realest people don’t have a lot of friends.

- Tupac Shakur

2. Don’t we all just really try to fake it well?

- Yancy Butler

3. Sometimes those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually anti-social, they just have no tolerance for drama and fake people.

- Reddioui

4. You’ve got to be yourself, and if you’re not, you’re a phony. It comes shining through if you’re not careful.

- Jack Harbaugh

5. Buy a gift for a dog and you will be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if you don’t have anything to offer it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

6. I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

- Tyler Knott Gregson

7. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthore

8. Fake friends will bring you down no matter what’s happening, and they’ll do it in a way that you may not even realize consciously.

- Tom Bilyeu

9. 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

10. I love fake people provided they are mannequins.

- Pushpa Rana

11. People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more.

- DeMarcus Cousins

12. Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.

- Victoria Jackson

13. Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

14. Being fake is so common now that being real is seen as offensive.

- Chris Ruden

15. Just be honest with who you are. Don’t pretend to be something you’re not. Don’t be a phony. Walk your talk. That’s how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.

- Wayne Dyer

16. You can’t fake listening. It shows.

- Raquel Welch

17. Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

- Dean Cavanagh

18. Stay away from people who makes you feel like you are wasting their time.

- Paulo Coelho

19. Hippies are so phony and fake.

- George Harrison

20. To all of you, uh, all you phonies, all of you two-faced friends, you sycophantic suck-ups who smile through your teeth at me, please leave me in peace. Please go. Stop smiling. It’s not a joke. Please leave. The party’s over. Get out.

- Christian Bale, Batman Begins

21. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.

- Shannon L. Alder

22. Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted. The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer.

- Israelmore Ayivor

23. 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

24. And without so much as an apology, you?ran off with that sideshow phony.

- Jack Nicholson, Batman

25. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake.

- Chuck Klosterman

26. Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.

- Habeeb Akande

27. Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.

- Hachiman Hikigaya

28. Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to be what you want to be. It is not pretense, it is a journey to self-realization.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

29. You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.

- Jim Bakker

30. The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

- John Verdon

31. You don’t look fake when you unconsciously pretend.

- Toba Beta

32. People striving for approval from others become phony.

- Ichiro Suzuki

33. It may…be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

- Mary Shelley

34. No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

35. Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. They pretend to be your friend first.

- Steve Irwin

36. False friends leave you in times of trouble.

- Aesop

37. History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

38. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

- William Shakespeare

39. A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone.

- Mike Skinner

40. Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they’re for you.

- Trent Shelton

41. Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.

- Shannon L. Alder

42. What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

43. Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.

- Genereux Philip

44. We fake perfect so others don’t have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

- Bryant H. McGill

45. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans.

- Philip K. Dick

46. Al Gore couldn’t be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator.

- Dennis Miller

47. Over a small misunderstanding, God will expose how people really feel about you.

- Gugu Mofokeng

48. Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

- Jeff Lindsay

49. If I doubt your intentions I will never trust your actions.

- Carlos Wallace

50. Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

- Benjamin Alire Saenz

51. 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

52. A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.

- Zig Ziglar

53. It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

54. The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

- John Green

55. The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

- Criss Jami

56. It’s beautiful when your realness is tested by fake people.

- Kichhuu

57. Better an honest enemy than a false friend.

- Germa Proverb

58. If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.

- Carlos Wallace

59. All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

- John Mellencamp

60. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

- Ismail Haniyeh

61. Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else’s.

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

62. Fake people are like costume jewelry: They look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves shine through.

- Nitya Prakash

63. Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.

- Stewart Stafford

64. When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.

- Nima Davani

65. We never lose friends, fake ones are exposed.

- Carlos Wallace

66. If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Larry Hogan

68. Real friends celebrate your wins. Fake friends downgrade them.

- Dan Go

69. I let people see the cracks in my life. We can’t be phony. We’ve got to keep it real.

- Charles R. Swindoll

70. The fake people do not dare to come out from their mask and face the truth of the real ones.

- Ehsan Sehgal

71. The most dangerous creature on Earth is a fake friend.

- Megan Margery

72. In a world where there’s so much fake, find it in your heart to be yourself. Be you. Don’t be a hypocrite. No apologies. Say no when you don’t want something. Don’t be forced into saying yes. Be honest. Be authentic. Don’t be part of anything fake.

- Mufti Menk

73. Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

- Pope Paul VI

74. I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

- Christopher Hitchens

75. Fake smiles lead to real break ups.

- Mel Robbins

76. You don’t want to come in and be phony and be someone you’re not.

- Jimmy Garoppolo

77. Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.

- London Mond

78. Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

79. It’s one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

80. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony.

- Larry Bird

81. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- T.S. Eliot

82. Removing the wrong relationships from your life are as important as cultivating the right ones.

- Shane Parrish

83. Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

84. I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

- Jacqueline Fernandez

85. You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.

- Eraldo Banovac

86. Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

- Adrienne Rich

87. Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

- Karen Salmansohn

88. Just because you loved a fake person does not mean your love was not real.

- Steph Feels

89. Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called ‘perfection.’

- Dan Pearce

90. I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who fake their perfection.

- Charles F. Glassman

91. Anything that consoles is fake.

- Iris Murdoch

92. Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

- Yolanda Hadid

93. In a town full of phonies, I’m not afraid to be me.

- Kyle Richards

94. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

- Julie Burchill

95. Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

- Chuck Palahniuk

96. I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.

- Fred Rodgers

97. Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.

- Scarlet Koop

98. Not many people are true, fake as the lies they tell.

- Kid Cudi

99. The problem is, people are being hated when they’re real and loved when they’re fake.

- Bob Marley