Quotes About Pretense

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better

He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

Complexity writings are filled with metaphors that try to make complex phenomena understandable to the human brain's hardwired need for order, meaning, patterns, sense making, and control, ever feeding our illusion that we know what's going on. We often don't. But the pretense that we do is comforting—and sometimes necessary for some effort at action.

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

The Mexican president refused to construct a pretense for paying for the wall, a pretense that might have redounded to his vast advantage (without his having to actually pay for the wall).

He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.

We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exercise power. For those upon whom that power is exercised, naiveté is always a mistake.

Time and space is where we chase things we pretend we don't have.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

he was the clean wrapper for a filthy deed.

My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, "Where's the bathroom?" and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

I know you're picturing gold candlesticks and infinity pools, but this place they made isn't decadent, no, it's rustic in the way only a rich person's place can be, with money flowing under it invisibly, so that they get to pretend they're just like the rest of us.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

The day Travis met Lu he was in his best suit—dark blue, pinstripes, a necktie. Women his age would see right through his sweat and pretense. Any woman his age, she'd say, "What, you work at Men's Warehouse now?" Yeah, a woman would know a cheap suit was like an easy costume, but the girls didn't catch on.

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My enemies pretend to hate me in the public. But I know they are secretly longing to be in my place and to whisper in private how much they've admired my works.