Quotes About Pretense

En mi todos los afectos se muestran en la superficie, pero con sinceridad. Siempre he sido actor, y en serio. Siempre que he amado, he fingido que he amado, y lo finjo para mí mismo.

Diktaren är en låtsare. / Han låtsas så fullständigt / att han till och med låtsas ha ont / av de smärtor han verkligen känner.

I painted myself in false colors and ended up with an attic room for an empire.

our pain is only grave and serious when we pretend it is.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving.

I am allergic to fancy dress. This is actual fact.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

Creative processes are always very opaque. Afterwards, you tend to pretend that everything was planned and it was a strategy, but it was not like that at all.

What trouble we go to, trying to fool people who see right through us anyhow.

This ridiculous object has been strutting around saying I this and I that and all the while it has no more I than a scarecrow and no more will than a puppet.

We can say with some accuracy that most people put on a show of their own knowledgeability and try to conceal their ignorance of millions of facts.

It is a major thesis of this book that the fantasy bond in the traditional family causes a tremendous amount of innocent, unnecessary suffering. Denying primitive hunger and pain and pretending connections that, in fact, do not exist, lead to fundamental distortions of each person's sense of reality. It is a great burden on everyone to play this game of "let's pretend.

como dos personas normales o como dos personas que fingen ser normales y a fuerza de fingirlo de alguna manera lo son o llegan a serlo

sonreír a diestra y siniestra fingiendo estar concentrado en problemas de índole filosófica, que es lo que finalmente hizo.

Honour and courtesy and justice...they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them to us like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

Honor and courtesy and justice…they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them up like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.

I don't know,' I said grimly. 'Oh,' she said. Then after a time, she added, 'When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't, but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend I eventually intend to do it.