“Better foolish and honest than clever and false.”
“It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.”
“Poshlust, Nabokov explains, "is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.”
“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
“It is better to be quotable than to be honest.”
“To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.”