Quotes About Pretense

Not one of these symbols of prosperity and taste has any use at all.

the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one.

At least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened

School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

I am swathed in cant', she thought, 'and it is good for me to be stripped of it.

Don't act. Or act better.

Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? [...] In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

No, mi amor. Lo que pasa es cuando uno se hace el profundo parece inteligente, pero nada más.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

Saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

George Bernard Shaw. He was at one of those awful cocktail parties, where nothing gets said. Someone asked him if he was enjoying himself. He answered, "It's the only thing I am enjoying here.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

Another lie in a life that had been nothing but lies.

I've been faking it all my life. I'm good at it.

It really irritates me when I see people in the public eye who pretend they do it all and I know they don't.

I like acting very much because I don't get punched, and it's not real.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.