Quotes About Pretense

Todd was everything Tallahassee was looking for: young, handsome, ambitious and completely full of shit.

I - you know, I know almost nothing about sports. So whenever I hear anything involving sports, my go-to move is to kind of nod and agree.

People will say anything to appear interesting.

Zengin olmak belki de sürekli bir gibi yapmak haliydi.(s.188)

Eso que llaman familia cada día que pasaba me parecía más como un grupo de personas que aparentan ser felices acallando por un rato sus demonios interiores para que creer que son amadas y para sentirse tranquilas, cómodas y seguras

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. 'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we'll use the moment it comes close enough.

In Valentine's experience, normality was always a pretense, people acting out what they thought were their expected roles

Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.

Piensa que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirte en lo que se finge ser.

A liar sees lies," said Taleswapper. "Even when they aren't there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can't stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.

It's all part of their system of totems. We've always tried to play along with it, and act as if we believed it.' 'How condescending of you,' said Ender. 'It's standard anthropological practice,' said Miro. 'You're so busy pretending to believe them, there isn't a chance in the world you could learn anything from them.

Puede que sea imposible disfrazarse con una identidad sin convertirse en lo que se finge ser.

Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and become instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we'll use the moment it comes close enough.

Sometimes people with the least that is worth stealing are the most concerned with giving the appearance of having great treasures hidden away.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is.

but I knew from Silicon Valley fundraisers that there was little a tech billionaire found more pleasing than the pretense that his innovations made life more equitable and meaningful.

Dicey had a picture in her head of Sammy putting on a mask every morning, to wear all day long. It was a heavy iron mask, and he pulled it around his own face and bolted it closed.

And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.

O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard the morals of the masses, how smelly they make the great back-yard wetting after everyone that passes.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.