Quotes About Charade

This whole thing has become a pantomime.

frightening person pretending to be normal. Things

By the time she approached his room, her steps were brisk, her false self reassembled.

The whole thing was a charade--the pomp, the ceremony, the goose-stepping. the salute--but the incredible cost was very real.

I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.

Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.

The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.

Wade said hello here and there and people seemed glad to see him. But by that time they would have been glad to see Pittsburgh Phil with his custom-built ice-pick. Life was just one great big vaudeville show.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

This is a vision of human life as inherently corrupt, but it also frames even spiritual affairs in commercial terms: with calculations of sin, penance, and absolution, the Devil and St. Peter with their rival ledger books, usually accompanied by the creeping feeling that it's all a charade because the very fact that we are reduced to playing such a game of tabulating sins reveals us to be fundamentally unworthy of forgiveness.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Talking to him is rather like talking to a school play.

Jovial" had always been a pretext - the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

corrupt interloper bluffing her way through her life.

Style equals pretense.

Kids do have to learn that life is a humiliating charade of endless disappointment and tragedy ultimately culminating in pain, decay, and death. My parents used to sing me to sleep with that one.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

You like to help everybody, don't you? I only pretend to.

You thought we were the most outstanding students in our freshman class. You were wrong. We are pretenders.

This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.

I've been faking it all my life. I'm good at it.