Quotes About Pretense

The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.

It's like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don't like him when in fact I do, because, God forbid, I might come across as desperate for affection or a little clingy, which everyone should know are perfectly natural human behaviors, after all. Ugh!

Brontola il vento al mio richiamo alla finestra, ma tu fingi raffiche di mitra. Sullo spiovuto selciato della strada si vedranno solo ortiche e stelle.

Ero distratto... Scusa... Perché dici che io non ho più anima? Perché fingi di essere così profondo, e gli altri invece tutti merde?

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

We're afraid others will see our flaws, weaknesses and insecurities. We're afraid if others really knew us, they would reject us. We feel like fakes and frauds in a world that seems to have it all together.

Posers will always fake it and never make it

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

They served the rich, and tried to think that they were rich.

Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.

Of course, [Miss Climpson,] you mustn't appear to be inquiring. You must find some good gossipy lady living in the neighborhood and just get her to talk in a natural way. You must pretend to be gossipy yourself – it's not in your nature, I know, but I'm sure you can make a little pretence about it – and find out all you can.

The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front.

Two places away to the left was the don who had been Richard's Director of Studies in English, who showed no signs of recognising him at all. This was hardly surprising since Richard had spent his three years here assiduously avoiding him, often to the extent of growing a beard and pretending to be someone else.

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being more or less happy. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true—from ourselves to the world.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Very full of cant phrases

That old mountebank? He won't find out anything. He's all talk and moustaches.

But, my friend, I am not an Anglo-Saxon. Why should I play the hypocrite?

C'è in essi molta ipocrisia, a Natale, onorevole ipocrisia, senza dubbio, ipocrisia "pour le bon motif", ma sempre ipocrisia.

Anne e groaznic de sensibil?, continu? Rhoda. ?i nu se pricepe s? ias? din situa?iile nepl?cute. Dac? o sup?r? ceva, prefer? s? nu vorbeasc? despre asta, de?i nu-i folose?te la nimic - cel pu?in, nu cred. Lucrurile sunt la fel, indiferent c? vorbe?ti despre ele sau nu. Doar fugi de ele ?i te prefaci c? nu exist?.