Quotes About Charade

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

The three of you are really quite astonishing." Sidney shook her head. "It had only been a vague suspicion before we left England, prompted by the willingness with which you were all prepared to carry out this charade, but I'd always thought that there was a touch of something not completely forthright about you.

We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.

but I managed to masquerade as a person having a good time.

Over time, the persona I assumed in her presence came to supplant my true self. It must have been then I first came to realize that for most people life was not a joy to be embraced with a full heart but a miserable charade to be endured with a false smile, a narrow path of lies, punishment, and repression.

I am and never become a teacher doing my job in a listless charade of indifference.

People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy about a book that hasn't given itself over to you yet--sometimes I'm the most inspired by imagining what the contents of an unread book might be. ~ Jonathan Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.

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.

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

Nathan was pretending to be Ed. He was pretending to be a good man, and everyone was falling for it. "Sure

I act like I'm a bit stupid.

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

That's sort of what showbusiness is - a charade. People are basing their assumptions about you on half the facts. The rest of it just isn't true.

Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.

Halloween is just like any other day, a bunch of people running around pretending to be someone their not.

One big school, full of fake bi...es.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

At first I thought they were playing to an

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.