Quotes About Pretense

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Trying to deny our self-absorbed nature, trying to pretend we are somehow more altruistic than others, make it impossible for us to transform ourselves.

What was leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason?

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to pretend, anymore, that he was a hero in a story.

smiling a fixed smile that never touched his eyes.

Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit.

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.

You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

Half the troubles in life come from pretending to oneself that one is a better and finer human being than one is';

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have, can be

She couldn't even fake being miserable for Andy's sake.

Dr. Parker and all my parents live in a paper-mache world. They just patch up problems with strips of newspaper and a little glue.

Halloween - the day when we could pretend to be whatever we wanted - seemed to be letting everyone be who they really were.

pretended they flirted back

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.