Quotes About Pretense

However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Everybody put on masks, including you and me. We all wear masks.

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

If you've got it flaunt it. If you do not pretend.

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

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Ik besef plotseling dat ik in een voortdurende vrees leef te moeten bestaan in een maatschappij waar iedereen iedereen voor de gek houdt.

All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust

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

The world has been doing little else but playing at make-believe all its lifetime.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.