Quotes About Pretense

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles .

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.

You all of you try to talk as if nothing had happened, And yet you are talking of nothing else. Why not get to the point Or if you want to pretend that I am another person— A person that you have conspired to invent, please do so In my absence. I shall be less embarrassing to you. Agatha?

So then, we are all equally guilty, every day. How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?

How, then, does one find and know peace and power in this life when surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses who only pretend to be clean by whitewashing their reputations while pointing fingers of judgment?

I'm not good. I don't know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody's good.

I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

No matter how badly you want to please someone, you can only put up a false front for so long.

Siempre quejándote de todo y a la vez fingiendo no darle importancia a nada. Vives de esperanzas pero no sabes ni qué esperas.

Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened.

These days I have to ask myself: What made me angrier? That Oscar, the fat loser, quit, or that Oscar, the fat loser, defied me? And I wonder: What hurt him more? That I was never really his friend, or that I pretended to be?

It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Left and right in Italy, they've always pretended to fight.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal. Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.

I do not believe in pathos. Our elders show us long faces in order to hide their stupidity.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

Never to talk about yourself is a refined form of hypocrisy.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

We have the masks

The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.

No teenage girl is stable. Some are just better at hiding it than others.