Quotes About Pretense

It was the people who tried to seem normal all the time who were really messed up

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Ah, Robbie, when we are dead and buried in our porphyry tombs, and the trumpet of the Last Judgement is sounded, I shall turn and whisper to you, 'Robbie, Robbie, let us pretend we do not hear it.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

what elaborate lengths we go to fool ourselves)...

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.

Because she is an actress, she has fashioned an entire career out of identity theft.

She tried to keep her voice steady, but it was pretense, like pretending self-control when something you loved was dead in front of your eyes. They would have to separate here.

This was the end of Dickie Greenleaf, he knew. He hated becoming Thomas Ripley again, hated being nobody, hated putting on his old set of habits again, and feeling that people looked down on him and were bored with him unless he put on an act for them like a clown, feeling incompetent and incapable of doing anything with himself except entertaining people for minutes at a time.

After this is kept up long enough, it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

That was the birth of religion, a shameful covering to hide our true human nature and pretend that we don't know what we know.

affectation.

The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know.

Think of me pretending to be a lawyer, and not knowing how to look low enough!

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

Love me for what I am Not what I try to be. Love me for what I am. I am A person who likes to lie too much. I try too much To impress other people... Often my inferiors.

Is that why he didn't stay?" "No. He left because I no longer wanted to be in partnership with him." "You didn't? I mean, you don't?" "No." "Why?" "Because he pretends to be better at what he does than he is. I prefer people who are better at what they do than they think they are.

I think women are foolish to pretend they're equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.