Quotes About Pretense

Denial can be beautifulBut only when you're a fantastic liar

The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After a while, you get used to it. It becomes pretense no longer.

He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It's just that all the science had gotten filtered out before it reached him. Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man. What the society permitted to trickle through was mainly pretense and confusion. It had never taught him how to distinguish real science from the cheap imitation. He knew nothing about how science works.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.

Cause you know that its a fool, who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder... - The Beatles

If I pretended to be confident all the time, that would just be a lie.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much?

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Perdonar? Nunca perdonéis, pero fingid que perdonáis. Decid amistosamente que perdonáis. Convenced de que habéis perdonado. Así devastador es el efecto cuando al final os lanzáis y buscáis la garganta.

Dude, I've known people who pretend to be crazy, but you, my friend, are the real deal.

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

Now I just act like I don't remember; Mary acts like she don't care.

Grace not only rescues individuals from their personal sin; it also creates a new community where the barriers of pretense and pride have been razed because of our mutual dependence on Christ.

He was one of those magnificent fakes who could overwhelm himself with his own sincerity.

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

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I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.