Quotes About Pretense

I should have been sending up flares, instead I was offering smiles.

You thought we were the most outstanding students in our freshman class. You were wrong. We are pretenders.

We are pretenders.

This ceremony of approval was a charade - everything had been decided before we got here - and as with all charades it was wanly ebullient, necessary, and thin.

Think: What has happened to me? Why am I lying like this on top of my covers with too much Jontue and mascara and jewelry, pretending casually that this is how I always go to bed, while a pervert with six new steak knives is about to sneak through my unlocked door. Remember: at Blakely Falls High, Willis Holmes would have done anything to be with you. You don't have to put up with this: you were second runner-up at the Junior Prom.

I do not like Jeff from, There's A Boy In The Girls' Bathroom, because in the beginning of the story he was just pretended to be Bradley's friend which I thought was a little rude because Bradley needed a real friend that would help him.

I'm not Meg tonight, I'm a 'doll'.

I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!

Rockefeller always felt uneasy about venting anger or making an egotistical show of protest, and he pretended to accept this demotion with equanimity.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one's personal failures.

They have no remembrance. They boast and chatter and pretend that they are a great people about to do great affairs in the jungle, but the falling of a nut turns their minds to laughter, and all is forgotten.

His eyes look as if he's pawned his real ones and is wearing paste.

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away — yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Success has always been a great liar.

Hold! I must have lost it, said the young man maliciously, pretending to search for it. But fortunately the world is a sepulcher; the men, and consequently the women, are but shadows, and love is a sentiment to which you cry, 'Fie! Fie!

you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

the pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow--of

but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.

But false cheer is draining, and if you pretend long enough there's always the possibility that you'll become an automaton.