Quotes About Pretense

Når man har et prosjekt, er det mye enklere å late som om man er en annen. Man kunne late som om man var Nancy Drew, for eksempel, eller Maria i Sound of Music, eller den forstandige og rappkjefta husholdersken i The Brady Bunch.

Vulnerability comes in pretending to be someone you are not.

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

Here we go again," Obama told me as we entered one hearing in which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was testifying. "We will faithfully pretend to be asking questions, but we will instead give statements. She will faithfully pretend to answer our questions, but will instead answer questions we didn't ask so as to deliver talking points we've all heard before. And the hearing will end, and we will walk out of here, calling it 'democratic accountability.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he doesn't possess.

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

Cuando no puedes salvarte a ti mismo o a tu corazón, ayuda ser capaz de salvar las apariencias.

the cant and rant of pipsqueaks about Inauthenticity and Forlornness.

You seem artful at those pretences, Which flatter common folk and princes.

in pretending to be brave, to stiffen the others' courage, I found my own courage.

Welch Schauspiel! aber ach! ein Schauspiel nur!

It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.

Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others—and we pretend they're small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When

How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?

All is pretense, but we must be careful what we pretend to be, because that is what we must become.

Their smiles never lit up their eyes, and

A whole hospital ward seemed to be crossdressing, nurses pretending to be mothers playing like boys with Tinkertoy babies.

The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,But Shadwell never deviates into sense.Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,Strike through and make a lucid interval;But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,His rising fogs prevail upon the day.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

I've been living a lie all my life.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I can't really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.