Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Lying
Hypocrite
True
Ceases
Truth
Deception
Hypocrisy
Sincerity
Perceive
Cease
Lies
Hypocrit
More quotes by Andre Gide
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Andre Gide
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Andre Gide
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide
