Quotes About Pretense

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.

Fake sUCKs!

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

He was pressured to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat did not come naturally to Steve Eisman. He could fake upbeat, and sometimes did, but he was happier not bothering.

There are two ways to be a health officer," he said. "One is to pretend it's not happening.

A lot of what people did and said when they predicted things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, It's impossible to know for sure.

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time.

How long can you gloss everything over and give people the idea that life is a sitcom?

Fake it. We know you can do that. We've seen your sex tape.

all is phony.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn't help it and didn't know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.

I couldn't stand was Buddy's pretending I was so sexy and he was so pure, when all the time he'd been having an affair with that tarty waitress and must have felt like laughing in my face.

I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

They were all smiling with bright, artificial smiles.

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations... I certainly learned a lot of things this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

I tried to smile, but my skin had gone stiff like parchment.

He kept smiling, as if the corners of his mouth were strung up on invisible wire.

I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.

and with a tolerant smile that was a superior lie, I walked on.