Quotes About Pretense

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

From fake relationships to fake happiness that is what one does when they are trying to make their ex's jealous but they forget the reality of how life is treating them at that same moment.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

It's so hard to pretend to be friends with someone special, when everytime you look at that person, all you see is eveything you want to have.

Worst thing in the world; being hated for someone you are; rather than being loved for someone your not.

I aint like his a.. anyway, I was just being nice...

The hardest thing isn't being sad. The hardest thing is being sad yet putting on a happy face around everyone.

Being sad and tell your friends you okay because you dont want them to worry about you.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

I've learned the best way to prevent your heart from getting broken, is to act like you don't have one.

Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

They believe in a universe of divine justice where the human race is guilty of sin, but they also believe in a secular justice where human beings are presumed innocent. You can't have both. You know how Americans deal with it? They pretend they are eternally innocent no matter how many times they lose their innocence. The problem is that those who insist on their innocence believe anything they do is just. At least we who believe in our own guilt know what dark things we can do.

Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laugh with you.

No habla con nadie. Solo se arrastra bajo los golpes que le propina su novio, por la noche y a escondidas. Para todos los demás, es majestuosa.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

but all that rose to the surface was more surface.

You know what he did for a living before the war? Sold champagne. A liquor salesman, Sandy. A fake—a plutocrat and a thief and a fake. Even the 'von' in his name is a fake.