Quotes About Pretense

Pretentiousness was probably my substitute for actual confidence.

They stood there pretending to be just friends when all the while everyone in the room could plainly see that they were only existing for each other.

Le monde est un grand bal où chacun est masqué.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

This car was a very pretty lie.

You might consider that you yourself are an arrogant person or you might consider that someone else is an arrogant person, but everybody who has ever felt even a moment of arrogance knows that arrogance is just a cover-up for really feeling that you're the worst horse, and always trying to prove otherwise.

The outside world exists like an actor on a stage: it's there but it's pretending to be something else.

We say, "That's a very interesting idea," when we have no intention of taking the idea seriously.

To negate the pain, men and gods forget, pretend to forget, then forget to pretend.

Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth. Fat men sucking in bellies. Poor folks putting on airs. Sinners acting like saints. All of us keeping pace with our companions, stepping lively in this dance of deceit.

I am warm on the outside, what people see. Warm eyes, warm face, warm fucking fake smile, but inside I am cold all the time, and full of lies. I am not what I seem to be; I am awful.

And this is the straight dope, right here. These people are not exactly human. They don the dress but they're like monkeys dolled up in the circus. They're clever and can learn, but that is all.

Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.

Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act. To be myself, I have to put on an act, Ginny said bitterly. What's that mean? It means I don't know who I am.

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even when it felt like a hollow performance.

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume.

I move my feet, turn away from her, try to pretend she's not there, which is the biggest fucking joke I've ever not laughed at.

Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't hear it.

All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over.