Quotes About Pretense

this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing.     Our

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit" (402).

Don't you love me, Mother?" Cornered by the question, she agreed to try to help him. Before she left the church, it seemed necessary to both of them that they embrace, and what an odd embrace it was, what a sick transaction. She, who wasn't capable of real love, pretended to love him while he, who really did love her, exploited her pretended love.

By the time she approached his room, her steps were brisk, her false self reassembled.

Mrs. Neverbody's Recipe for Making Crocodile Tears To a slice of hanky-panky Add some artificial cranky. Moisten well with canned boo-hoo. Flavor with a spoof or two. Drip this slowly—as it falls Roll it into little bawls. If you're careful, while they're cooling You can spread on only-fooling. (This recipe is not worthwhile Unless you are a crocodile.)

I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.

It is dangerous to pretend that we know more than we do. But it is even more dangerous to pretend that we know less.

I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster.

It is always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.

Instinctively he had already become proficient in the habit of simulating that he was someone, so that others would not discover his condition as no one; in London he found the profession to which he was predestined, that of the actor, who on a stage plays at being another before a gathering of people who play at taking him for that other person.

Uno puede fingir muchas cosas, incluso la inteligencia. Lo que no se puede fingir es la felicidad.

Morao sam, naravno, da izigravam ?udljivog osobenjaka. Ali bogatašima to lepo pristaje.

I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

A hypocrite's hatred is hidden behind flattering words. #qotd #quoteoftheday

Street angel, house devil.

They come into the courtroom in a suit and leave with no trousers.

Ah! How we all love to be deluded! We have a secret dread of being thought ignorant. And we end by being ignorant after all, only we have done it in a long and roundabout way.

It had never even occurred to him that the relationship could end. He remembered hit coming, a feeling of incipient coldness, like the first hint of winter, a bewildering sensation of wrongness, as though something had broken deep down in the engine of his life. For a while, he pretended that he couldn't hear it, couldn't feel it, but nonetheless his existence with Marc inexorably ground to a halt.

it felt like he was acting a part in a play: other people spoke their lines and he spoke his, and everything that happened and everywhere he went felt unreal somehow, like scripted events unfolding on a stage set

The left patronizes minorities, pretends they don't know how to vote correctly, pretends they don't have IDs, when in fact they want their votes to count, and participate in greater numbers when you assure them their votes will count.