Quotes About Pretense

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.

PuÅ£ini v?d cum suntem într-adev?r, dar toÅ£i v?d ce ne prefacem c? suntem.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

I prefer to keep fooling myself, at least for a little while longer.

And I wondered if these people too, who seemed able to move as they wished about the yard, were in truth constrained to behave as they did and were only pretending to be free, as we ourselves had done when we came in procession through the town.

evil condoned wears the mask of benevolence

So that was how they would do it, merge back into the driving lane after a blown tire. They would say ordinary things and pretend none of it had happened. Until the next time.

But no matter how hard they all tried to be normal, their life was a dirty window that couldn't be wiped clean. Everything, every moment, was coated by illness. As always, it fell to Kate to lead the way, to be the smiling, optimistic one. They were all okay as long as she remained strong and resilient. Then they could talk and laugh and carry on the pretense of ordinary life.

Smiling too brightly

Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

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

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

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 desire of appearing persons of ability often prevents our being so.

Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.