Quotes About Pretense

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Lack of moral purity and benevolence in thoughts reflect human's devilishness; thus, such ones, who carry the beard on their Face and Paternoster in their hands; indeed, they pretend. Consequently, the prayers of those also stay on selfishness and become ineffective too.

No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control." "Pretending? You who have always kept everything under control, you were pretending?" "Why not? It's unavoidable to pretend a little.

You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn't happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her

I seemed tranquil but I was extremely agitated, my face hurt with the effort of smiling.

Guardami» mormorò, «so di essere cattiva a dirti queste cose, ma lui è assai più cattivo di me. Ha la cattiveria peggiore, quella della superficialità».

Because I didn't have a decent jacket. Because I thought it was better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.

A multimillionaire pretends to be hospitalized to hide the mammoth sized lies that must have affected common people nationwide.

A person who feigns ignorance of not knowing one's false friends is just befooling own-self rather than bluffing other people.

A person who is already in the trench could not pull up someone who has fallen a few stairs on the ground, but can pretend to be lending a helping hand and pose only for picture before photographers to gain praise and publicity

A person who loves own family first lives only for few members of the house, but if someone shares own photo often to show an affection for the family on social networking sites, then s/he is most likely to be a self-seeker who is just pretending to have care and concern for the close-ones.

A selfless person has either a very less or literally no friends but a selfish does have often many people, hanging around, who just pretend to be his/her friends to fulfill merely their desire or wish.

A vile person also has a pleasant smile often on own face.

Beware of blue-tickers with tons of followers & subscribers as most of of the biggest liars and betrayers are hiding there only. Whenever those self-seekers pretend to care to mislead people, the same post gets many Retweets/Likes/Comments/Share from a lot of duffers, paid supporters & boot-lickers and thus lies & rumors spread everywhere

Beware of blue-tickers with tons of followers & subscribers as most of the biggest liars and betrayers are hiding there only. Whenever those self-seekers pretend to care to mislead people, the same post gets many Retweets/Likes/Comments/Share from a lot of duffers, paid supporters & boot-lickers and thus lies & rumors spread everywhere

Many a times, it has been seen mentally sick people displaying profuse love online for own parents especially mother but using her shamelessly by sharing own picture with or without her just for getting publicity or Likes on own photo pic only and surprisingly, it is supported by many of his pretentious friends called fiends.

People do not get so much happiness or satisfaction by visiting to a hill station or a scenic location as much as by posting online their photo,taken there, and pretending in that picture to be ecstatic to make only others jealous in own social networking circle.

People who are actually against one another will not be seen sharing same public platform for any ceremony or taking meal together, else just pretending to the audience.

The more a person has own clean and clear conscience, the more readily he can realize & recognize as who is actually wise and who is only pretending to be nice by talking with sweet voice to the people.