Quotes About Pretense

Ata që shpenzojnë paret e tyre për tu eksituar me mënyra të dorës së dytë, janë nevrikë si dukeshat që nuk e gjejnë dot banjën

Wade said hello here and there and people seemed glad to see him. But by that time they would have been glad to see Pittsburgh Phil with his custom-built ice-pick. Life was just one great big vaudeville show.

She tried to keep a cute little smile on her face but her face was too tired to be bothered.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't. Sometimes I think these pretenses at authoritative knowledge are failures of language: the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity

The rabbits became strange in many ways, different from other rabbits. They knew well enough what was happening. But even to themselves they pretended that all was well, for the food was good, they were protected, they had nothing to fear but the one fear; and that struck here and there, never enough at a time to drive them away.They forgot the ways of wild rabbits. They forgot El-ahrairah, for what use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Dorrigo Evans hated virtue, hated virtue being admired, hated people who pretended he had virtue or pretended to virtue themselves. And the more he was accused of virtue as he grew older, the more he hated it. He did not believe in virtue. Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.

Oh yes, we Londoners pretend to be all civilized and cultured, a beacon to the world, but it's all lies. We're rotten.

I've always thought you are what you are and you shouldn't pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you're pretending to be.

Dovrebbe apparirci ovvio come il tempo per noi non agisca affatto da fissativo, ma piuttosto da solvente. Solo che credere questo non conviene, non serve; non aiuta a tirare avanti; perciò fingiamo di non saperlo.

Up there I'm just passing as me.

what they sold in the bar was the fake mask of alcohol.

What a surprise attack. To imagine that you perceived that my mask was a mask and nevertheless went on pretending to be deceived.

You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not.

Perseus wore a magic cap down over his eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man!