Quotes About Pretense

Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to. ... Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.

I know I should have been grateful because it was a very nice thing to do. But I wasn't grateful. I wasn't grateful at all. Don't get me wrong. I acted like I was. But I wasn't. To tell you the truth, I was starting to get mad.

Nadie en mi familia es rico, pero parece que todos ahorran lo necesario para este tipo de eventos, y todos fingimos que somos ricos por un día.

Some people's fake is more honest than other people's real.

There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.' (Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)

he had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

Sorry is the KoolAid of human emotions.

thoes prepared to shed copious floods of crocodile tears . . .

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

I often ordered chips, just so that I could watch them all pretend they didn't want one.

I had become very good by then at smiling and saying nothing at all.

Tenía la mirada vacía de alguien que siempre se encontraba apartado del mundo que lo rodeaba. A veces me preguntaba si era un mecanismo de defensa, si la única manera de sobrellevar esa vida era fingir que no era a él a quien le ocurría todo eso.

You know what language she speaks? Hypocrisy. But it is hard to pretend you have no pain, you know? Like you do not care?

I smiled and I think I put on a pretty good impression of someone who was enjoying the day.

Nothing is so unimpressive as behavior designed to impress

I wonder if we recognize the irony of telling people to act normal, because to act is to perform a role that isn't real. And I wonder if we truly understand what it does to a human being to tell them to pretend to be someone, or something, they are not, and how this demand requires people to repress, efface, and cover up who they really are.

I act like shit don't phase me. Inside it drives me crazy, my insecurities could eat me alive.

You can't trust actors.