Quotes About Pretense

when all of life is a costume party, costume parties are no longer possible.

I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.

Was die Menschen täglich ihre Entscheidungen nennen, ist nichts weiter als ein gut einstudiertes Spiel.

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

I'm a fake intellectual.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

yr/ humanity counterfeit yr/ liberty cankered with simulation

on the outside, and all of

Tiana wanted to dig in her heels--literally--as Lottie tugged on her arm, but she stood no chance when pitted against her best friend and her daddy. Instead, she braced herself for the impact of having to be near Naveen and pretend he had no effect whatsoever on her. She was no Evelyn Preer, but a few more months of this and her acting skills might get her all the way to Hollywood.

Para un intelectual, el arte de hacerse simpático consiste en fingir que comparte la variedad de estupidez más arraigada en el colectivo cuyo favor pretende.

Children lose interest in their parents when they are left. They are not sentimental. They are passionate and cold. [...] They learn to pretend. And pretense becomes the most active, the realest part, alluring as dreams. It takes place of what we think is real. - pg. 11-12

God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul.

When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on.

The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.

The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

On dit souvent qu'il faut sauver les apparences. Moi je dis qu'il faut les assassiner car c'est le seul moyen d'être sauvé.

ça ressemble au bonheur, on dirait du bonheur, mais ce n'est pas du bonheur. On devrait être heureux, on ne l'est pas; alors on fait semblant.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.

All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap.

Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.

That old saw about smiling when you're sad left out the real point- that it kills you to do it.

Udaj?, ?e wiem, ?e nic nie wiem.