Quotes About Pretense

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

You're not really living if you have to pretend to be happy. So kiss slowly, love deeply, and don't let your past rob you of your future.

Whatever the scenario, our need for love and belonging can be so strong that it blinds us to our most valuable talents and qualities. We then live a life of pretense and self-negation. Of course, our working life will suffer also, because it is but a part of our life as a whole. "Holding

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn't wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

a sham friend is more hateful than an open enemy.

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Why couldn't people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty laundry stuffed under a bed, and then dying, so the grieving got whammed with two losses—the flesh-and-blood bodies and the images they thought they knew.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Just so we know we have the story straight you too are posing as husband and wife? No, we're not posing.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it's a fake one.

we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.

I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling. To act normal would be to feel a bit more normal. I acted normal.

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When we pretend to be somoene other than who we are, our true self hides in fear and shame; the fear of being discovered and the shame of not being enough.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Suzanne is not a horrible person masquerading as a nice one, just an angry one pretending to be normal.