Quotes About Pretense

I'll pretend to be who they want me to be.' He grinned then, and she saw his youth. 'But it won't work. In the end I'll have to disappoint someone. Either them, or myself.

But why would a man in his right mind memorize another man's words instead of speaking his own? That's what a player does. Maria shrugged. He pretends to be someone he's not.

Enforced love is not love. All it can lead to is a sham relationship without any genuine communication, a pretense of warmth and cordiality that does not really exist, a false avowal of affection designed to mask resentment or possibly even hatred.

Todo el mundo está cansado. Lo que pasa es que algunos aprenden a actuar como si no lo estuvieran.

did that require such a leap of the imagination? Perhaps affectation can be so thoroughgoing, so authentic in its details, that it stops being pretense… and becomes, for all practical purposes, real.

Cuando los hombres mienten, el lenguaje de su cuerpo puede ser evidente. Cuando las mujeres mienten, prefieren aparentar estar ocupadas.

Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

BALLOON, n. A contrivance for larding the earth with the fat of fools.

I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to another. Seeing while unseen, and pretending I was a part of what I saw. Making up a life where I wasn't an outcast.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.

No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any. The best you could do was play a long con and act as if you had them. Never show fear. Never show doubt.

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.

If this phrase the 'balance of power' is to always be an argument for war, the pretense for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

The thing I'm hung up on is the idea of seeing something real. I don't think most people feel half the things they pretend to feel.

Faccio solo finta di essere sfacciata. In realtà me la faccio addosso dalla paura. Questa cena fuori mi rende confusa. Non so se voglio davvero una storia lunga, o solo una scopata veloce. E tu?

For the most part I felt nothing but scorn for an art form that required the pretense that it was natural for people to communicate with one another in rhymed song.

Affectation lights a candle to our defects, and though it may gratify ourselves, it disgusts all others

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.