Quotes About Pretense

You can fake anything, but not happiness.

It's hard not to act like you know it all when you do.

maybe everybody is really somebody else deep down but they all learn their lines and get their diplomas and go through life playing these roles and they get so used to it they just can't stop.

Tugwell had no patience for the illusion of democracy, or the pretense of being a man of the people, or the empty rhetoric of equal opportunity.

We're only pretending everything is normal because we don't know what else to do.

It's been a while since someone last made her laugh. Since she last laughed without deciding beforehand that laughing was the smart thing to do.

What can I tell you? Welcome to the human race. You people like to pretend things are simple, even at your own cost.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Cao sent the battalions chasing long-gone foxes because he wanted to give the presidential palace the impression he was on the alert. Afterward he would order the battalion back to its base to "rest" instead of returning it to the training center. Training his men for combat was not one of Cao's priorities. He pretended they were already well trained.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.

Meu marido gosta de se fingir de mau. Mas é só aparência. peixoto (para d. Lígia) Ã¢â'¬â€ Ah

Ti stupisci di quanto sei attore. Di come fingi, di come ti imposti con tutti. Forse non senti niente? Forse sei finto fino al midollo? È tutto mediato dall'ipocrisia nella tua vita. Ti sei bruciato dentro, non senti più niente, ti dici. Cerchi di essere triste. Ti viene da ridere.

he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery

much of an anticlimax. Miming feels pretty daft at the

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

Me, I'll just continue to pretend I'm both blind and stupid, and brightly say the things other people find foolish, and so make the truth foolish.

Uinniau assumed the earnest face all men used when lying to their friends.

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

Sometimes she swung a stick sword: she had learnt long since that it made him happy for her to pretend to be Branwen the Bold, just as it made her happy for him to be still when she was watching and listening.

The gesiths they passed sang a cheerful, ugly song. One in four rode with poles topped by brutalised heads of Lindeymen. They did not look human. Hild pretended they were not.

Envy differs from the other vices by the ease with which it disguises itself as a virtue.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.