Quotes About Pretense

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

A plastic man really, actually no man at all.

The man was high yellow In public, afraid of himself, pretending his music Was material when in fact, it was the opposite: Like a breath that comes so quickly you know You're breathing ether: either atmospheric And anonymous as the air against a window, Or indefinite & mute as a curtain of wind.

Ally wasn't disappointed in the writers: she hadn't expected anything from them in the first place; it hadn't occurred to her to be interested in writers as individuals beyond their work. To her relief no one whose books she'd read ever came to the centre, although sometimes she had to pretend to have read the writers who did. The writers could be fairly crazy, too; you had to be vigilant not to trip over their vanity or anxiety. Luckily, most of her favourites were dead. (She's the one, 151)

We need everyone who suffers to be a victim because only thus can we maintain our pretense to universal understanding and experience the warm glow of our own compassion, so akin to the warmth that a strong, stiff drink imparts in the cold.

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

We all spend so much time, not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're too desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move.

Part of the doctrinal system in the United States is the pretense that we're all a happy family, there are no class divisions, and everybody is working together in harmony. But that's radically false.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

Ig­nore how it feels when the on­ly re­al tal­ent you have is for hid­ing the truth.

Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth.

It's so ob­vi­ous he's try­ing to pass as a nor­mal hap­py per­son.

We use criticism as a fake participation.

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You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Pak zapne televizi, b?ží tam nÄ›jaký seriál, znáte to, skute?ní lidé, co pÃ…â"¢edstírají, že jsou faleÅ¡ní lidé s vymyÅ¡lenými problémy, a na to se dívají skute?ní lidé, co zapomenou na své skute?né problémy.