Quotes About Pretense

It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who become enraged when called by their right names.

Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold. Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

Anyone can put on a fine coat of varnish outside.

The whole game in the fifties and early sixties was for no one to know who you really were. We children were witness to the total pretense of how our parents wanted the world to see them. We helped them maintain this image, because if anyone outside the family could see who they really were deep down, the whole system, the ship of your family, might sink. We held our breath to give the ship buoyancy. We were little air tanks.

What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, "This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage

While it is hard to fathom who we are and how we are to live when public chaos shatters our routine, the slow-motion pain of each private death and cataclysm we endure is harder. Each slams us off our feet, yet we have agreed to pretend to be fine again at some point, ideally as soon as possible, so as not to seem self-indulgent or embarrass anybody.

Trouble is, he wasn't clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.

but putting her arms around him, telling him she loved him, were only palliative, on the surface, and she knew better than to pretend they reached the hurt.

You remember what I told you," she said as he approached the hook where she had placed his coat. "You move slowly, you do not really move like a woman, for if you moved so fast and so much as a woman, the illusion would be broken, the illusion is a complete lie. You move more slowly than a human creature, and you keep your arms close to your body.

I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.

Which was how she often did after flare-ups—pretending nothing had happened.

I pretended I belonged.

All you need to know is that I have an old enemy pretending to be me. (Acheron) Why? (Talon) Well, it obviously isn't to be nice to me and win over my friends, now is it? (Acheron)

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.