Quotes About Pretense

In fact, he [George Michael] was loitering in public loos like some pre-war homosexual. It's one thing to keep quiet. It's another to pretend you're someone you're not.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets hurt.- Phoenix and Ashes

Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

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

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

Long ago I used to mutter (as you probably do), "Very interesting," and cast a desperate glance around for the punch-bowl. This banal comment fools no one, least of all the artist, and you quickly find you have lost a friend and alienated a roomful of people, all of whom are pretending they like the pictures with a grim kind of appreciation.

Mes apsimetame, jog gyventume, ir gyvename, jog apsimestume

Social climbers are like ghosts. Scarey and transparent at the same time.

They always act like they're having an amazing time, they're louder and high-pitched, shoving each other and screaming with laughter at nothing. But Becca knows what they're like when they're happy, and that's not it. Their faces on the way home afterwards look older and strained, smeared with the scraps of leftover expressions that were pressed on too hard and won't lift away.

couldn't see fit to put more effort into this pretense. And Chris most likely because

Oh, I don't read. I skulk about in search of quotations that might make me appear educated.

She (Emily Dickinson) loved simplicity, and perhaps withdrrew into seclusion because it was the simplest way of doing what she wanted to do; express her ideas and thoughts in poetry which no one whom she knew would understand. This was as natural to her as breathing, but the pretense of the people around her seemed unnatural.

No podría vencer su dolor; pero al menos podría fingir que no era tan grande o que podría soportarlo.

Public speaking is scary, I think. I've gotten way better at it. If I have to do a speech and be like, 'I'm a YouTuber,' then that's easy, but if I have to get up there and pretend I know something in front of adults, it's never fine. In front of adults, it's like, 'Ahhhh they're going to judge me.'

I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me. Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don't exist. She pretends I'm invisible.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.