Quotes About Pretense

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to hide them and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

There's no weakness as great as false strength.

A straight face is an ignorant man's attempt to appear knowledgeable.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Jovial" had always been a pretext, from the high school football team's locker room on—the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

Jovial" had always been a pretext - the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

corrupt interloper bluffing her way through her life.

Why did people have to pretend to be what they already were?

He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.

Phoebe realized how very wrong she'd been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she'd grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn't pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.

Because that's what our family does. Pretends that if we don't talk about a thing, it didn't happen. As if we could shape the truth with our stories, or lack thereof.

I am being as honest with myself as possible, which is harder than it sounds. Who wouldn't rather write down pretty things and pretend they are the truth?' "My photos are a way of telling stories but without the pressure of all those words. I used to think of them as a way to capture everything that's good. Everything my life wasn't. but now I take pictures of all of it: the sad, the disturbing, the ugly.

Whether you're faking one or the other it isn't worth the state you get yourself in.

doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness. How the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination.

Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People fake things so much. Put on a happy face and show off your perfect life.

Pretending to misremember a name was such a reliable way to annoy.

But even though there were plenty of teeth in the grin, there was no heart.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Dimentichiamo che la vita è fragile, friabile, effimera. Facciamo tutti finta di essere immortali.

One of the most obvious explanations is that the leaders undertake many actions that make it possible for them to pretend they are doing something effective to avoid a catastrophe: endless conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them.

It was only recently that she was beginning to admit to herself how much it hurt to have to be fine.

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