Quotes About Pretense

The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply allowing herself to feel bad would have been.

Outwardly, however, I pretended to share all the normal enthusiasms over victory and despairs over defeat; and I think I carried it off pretty well. There is always some ultimate thing you must do when you are in Rome, even if the Romans are exceptionally broad-minded.

Something else is hurting you but it's easier to pretend it's not. Because, It hurts being the one who loves more.

I smile all the time so that nobody knows how sad and lonely I really am.

People don't fake depression they fake being ok. Remember that.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're ok. Who are you when nobody's watching?

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

I had grown weary of federal agents and wiseguys, narcs and stings and brain-fried lowlifes, and all the seriousness and pretense we invest in the province of moral invalids.

You're lying through your fangs, Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but innocent Fang is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.

También me parece sospechoso su estúpido comportamiento. No hacen más que reírse disimuladamente y darse palmadas en la espalda, diciendo cosas como tremendo y lo máximo, el tipo de expresiones que usaría un psicólogo de colegio para simular que nos entiende.

I wasn't into anything at school. I used to get really embarrassed. I used to get asked to do performing things, and I'd go to all the rehearsals, and then I'd pretend to be ill on the day I had to actually perform. I was very unhappy at school.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

manufactured bonhomie

everything in this strange system is the reverse of what it pretends to be. It is the reverse of truth, and I become so tired of examining into its inconsistencies and absurdities, that I hasten to the conclusion of it, in order to proceed to something better.

thought she was his beard, but she was

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

That mask of Wilder's

but I managed to masquerade as a person having a good time.

Jacob laughed along with Chip in a fake, Great Gatsby, old-money sort of voice, obviously mocking my brother.

I want to stumble across something on the sidewalk and pretend she dropped it: a flower petal, a scarf. And then I want to set it on fire.