Quotes About Pretense

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil

In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

If you don't know how, why pretend?

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

I graduated first in my class from alibi school.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

Ako s ne?im ?ovjek nije upoznat, mora pitati kako bi nau?io. To je zaista puno bolje nego pretvarati se da znaš više nego što znaš samo zato jer se u svojoj umišljenosti ne želiš prikazati neukim.