Quotes About Pretense

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Passer pour un idiot aux yeux d'un imbécile est une volupté de fin gourmet.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

In der gegenwärtigen 'Kultur' geben sich wenige die Mühe, zwischen Aufrichtigkeit und dem Vorspielen von Aufrichtigkeit zu unterscheiden - ja, wenige sind zu dieser Unterscheidung überhaupt in der Lage -, wie auch nur wenige zwischen religiösem Glauben und dem Einhalten religiöser Vorschriften unterscheiden.

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?

Tú crees que Simón te quiere todo el tiempo? Claro que no. Te quiere y te odia, todo está mezclado en su interior, aunque él no te lo dirá. No, él lo mantiene en secreto y finge que dentro de él todo es plácido, unas aguas remansadas y sin olas. Igual que su forma de hablar; nuestro famoso hombre racional. Pero créeme, el viejo Simón tiene tanto lío dentro como tú y como yo.

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere.

Decía que finges ser un ciudadano respetable y un hombre racional, pero en realidad no eres más que un niño perdido. Así lo decía textualmente: un niño que no sabe dónde vive ni qué quiere. Una

A cold blast hit him and he laughed at the sting as he stepped outside, surveyed the night sky, and drank deeply. Such a good liar he was. Such a good one. Everyone thought he was fine because he'd camo'd his little problems. He wore a Sox hat to hide the eye twitch. Set his wristwatch to go off every half hour to beat back the dream. Ate though he wasn't angry. Laughed though he found nothing funny. And he'd always smoked like a chimney.

She closed her eyes so she couldn't see him, so she could pretend it was some other male, any other male. The distance and insulation that lie offered seemed crucial. Except her body knew it was him. And oh, God… …so did her soul.

A veces, fingir ser normal era el mejor antídoto contra las cosas raras. El dicho «finge hasta que lo logres» era algo más que simple verborrea psicológica.

a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.