Quotes About Pretense

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

En fait, tu te donnes des airs comme ça mais t'es un gentil, toi... -Ta gueule.

Beginnings are special because most of them are fake.

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

First of all, people are always pretending to be what they are," said his father. "That's basically a philosophical question. Part of being something is pretending to be it.

And I. I too. Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

And so, by the arts of Ulysses, [5] they drew me from my mother under pretense of being wedded to Achilles.

After all, he reflected, his whole uniform was a disguise, his whole new calling a masquerade.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love for those closest to me was become only an attempt to love, that my casual relations — with an editor, a tobacco seller, the child of a friend, were only what I remembered I should do, from other days.

The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something--most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning--

The room rang full of her artificial laughter.

unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blase sophistication.

affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

yapmac?k tav?rlar?n çoÄŸu, baÅŸlarda olmasa bile, eninde sonunda hep bir ÅŸey gizlemek içindir-

Everything is theater.

I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.

Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be taken for being. Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. [23](Zenith trans.)

In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved, I've pretended to love, pretending it even to myself.

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.