Quotes About Pretense

Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.

Who's crazier, anyway: people who struggle honestly, or the people who act like they never do?

Pretend you are foolish to the foolish, and be yourself when you are alone or with others like you, because if you take the foolish seriously as your friend, you might be a fool yourself.

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them. I didn't want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Fingir es esencial para convivir, para prosperar y progresar

A paz, infelizmente, é sempre apenas aparente, e transitória, um fingimento.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

He was tall, dark, and handsome in his black-and-silver finery, walking as if he owned the world. Only his quick blink and the worried pucker between his eyebrows gave away the fact that he knew he didn't - not even a little piece of it.

ceux qui prétendaient n'exposer que des idées. Non : Platon était un auteur de théâtre ; le jeune Hegel avait écrit le plus exaltant des romans d'apprentissage

She feigns confidence in the way all mothers know how to do in front of their children. She wears the fierce maternal armor of deceit.

todos sabem que o caminho para a verdadeira audácia passa sempre, primeiro, pelo fingimento.

The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

It's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it." --Dexter

Los veíamos al pasar, haciendo como si no los viéramos, con

It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.

I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it's just terrified. Because underneath that shiny veneer, perfectionism is nothing more that a deep existential angst the says, again and again, 'I am not good enough and I will never be good enough.

I think perfectionism is just a high-end, haute couture version of fear. I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it's just terrified. Because underneath that shiny veneer, perfectionism is nothing more than a deep existential angst that says, again and again, "I am not good enough and I will never be good enough.

One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting

trumpery. Knew