Quotes About Pretense

So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.

But she wasn't a virgin and that hurt Grey, for she had implied it many times. But he pretended that he didn't know she had cheated him.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.

I do this work, but I am uncomfortable in situations where you're hyped into something you're not. Just because you're in a long limo doesn't mean anything.

I think that the reason I became an actor, probably, underneath it, was that I spent my life acting normal.

I had been nominated for an Academy Award for my performance as Sandy Lester, Dustin Hoffman's neurotic, struggling actress girlfriend, in 'Tootsie.' Under Sydney Pollack's direction, 'Tootsie' had been a runaway hit starring Dustin as an unemployed actor who pretends to be a woman in order to land a role in a soap opera.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.