Quotes About Pretense

and doctrinairism are the disease of our time; they pretend to have all the answers."44 Where primitives identify themselves with the world itself, moderns identify themselves with the part of them that controls the world: the ego.

When one lived a life that was, essentially, a lie, appearances were everything.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am." The look he gives me is withering. "Do you?

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

I'm so good at faking I don't even know when I'm doing it

And the people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.

No one is who they pretend to be.

do not confound playing with playing a part.

This is all just corporate theater. I don't like it but accept it for what it is.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Ought one ever to play at make-believe with a full-grown man for any consideration whatever—even though he be a parson, and a possible father-in-law? There's a case of conscience for you!

We smiled at each other. Ms. Vigue was doing her best to appear approachable, while I did my best to appear harmless. We were both lying as hard as we could.

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

You just want tae fuck up on drugs so that everyone'll think how deep and fucking complex you are. It's pathetic, and fucking boring.

He didn't believe that, surely." "Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn't want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.

la peor pobreza es la de cuello y corbata, porque hay que disimularla

No hay peor pobreza que la de la gente venida a menos, porque se debe aparentar lo que no se tiene», había confesado Nívea a su primo

Mi vida está hecha de apariencias, no verdades.