Quotes About Pretense

Sometimes we pretend we don't care, because it hurts to admit we still do.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

You're baloney without the mayo.

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

Acting is an empty and useless profession.

I guess if I learned anything this year is you can pretend to be anyone you want. But when it comes to love, I mean real love, the best thing is just be yourself.

Never pretend to be someone else because when you decide you want to be yourself again, you wouldn't know where to start from...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Pretending to be someone that you are not is hurting yourself. It's telling yourself that the real you is worthless...

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Quizá sea, después de todo, el más hipócrita, ya que no hace nada por zafarse.

They were no lovers; they were, apparently, husband and wife.

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And

one again, even if it was a painted smile. Sometimes a painted smile was the only one you had.

Phaedrus: 'They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality?' "6

The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!