Quotes About Pretense

Actors are frightened little children.

I thought suddenly that she wasn't real; she was just a mass of talk out of guidebooks, of drawings out of fashion-plates.

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

It really was a very strange feeling she had about Emily. It arose from her being so desolate. She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing. She wanted to believe, or to pretend to believe, that Emily understood and sympathized with her, that she heard her even though she did not speak in answer.

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

Wat een merkwaardige kronkel om het echte te bedekken met een nabootsing van iets echts

Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.

Review, friends—troops long past review," the Duke intoned. "All to fate a weight of pains and dollars. Their spirits wear our silver collars. Review, friends—troops long past review: Each a dot of time without pretense or guile. With them passes the lure of fortune. Review, friends—troops long past review. When our time ends on its rictus smile, we'll pass the lure of fortune.

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

their faces masked by smiles.

I have no notion of what he's talking about. I have to lie and say, I do. He says, You do know he was perhaps the greatest satirist in English literature. I thought he was Irish.

I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face

he spent many an hour in only the most superficial appearance of actual work

Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

I don't really drink, but the one thing I really hanker after is Zubrowka vodka. If it's someone's birthday, I'll pretend I like red wine for about three sips.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

Connor MacLeary showed up wasted and tossed the keg into the pool." Jimmy shrugged philosophically. "And my bitch-ass neighbor called the cops. We had to pretend it was a church barbecue.

da la impresión de que se ha inventado una realidad falsa y no sabemos si realmente cree en ella o sólo lo pretende.

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

Maneck studied beggermaster's excessive chatter, his attempt to hide his heartache. Why did human do that to their feelings? Whether it was anger or love or sadness, they always tried to put something else forward in its place. And then there were those who pretended their emotions were bigger and grander than anyone else's. A little annoyance they acted like gigantic rage; where a smile or chuckle will do, they laughed hysterically. Either way, it was dishonest.

Si tiene duro più facilmente se si fa finta di ridere.»

Remember - when you came back from the states thirty years ago, and you had caught on to the importance of putting up a good front, and keeping it up at all costs. Yes, and you make a bundle of those wrapping papers of yours! And now you yourself are nothing but wrapping paper. With nothing inside.

He was a faulty judge of character, a prevaricator, a child at heart. He went everywhere unrecognized and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants, calling himself a cattleman or commodities investor, someone rich and leisured who had the common touch.