Quotes About Facades

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

I don't really like them, either (but I pretend I do).

Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don't have to go inside.

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made up like dolls and they can't show the effort they're making, yet under the surface of the water it's a struggle and a sacrifice.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

Paris guards her inner beauty from the casual observer. To find it one must look beyond the façades. It is true of people also, I think: their spirits exist behind their façades, beyond their words.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

We are pretenders.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

A woman who laughs a lot lies a lot without a worry of getting caught and remains confined in own thought of looking super-hot even when actually not to the man.

Tourists and transients lived in hotels and motels along the waterfront. Behind them a belt of slums lay ten blocks deep, where the darker half of the population lived and died. On the other side of the tracks - the tracks were there - the business section wore its old Spanish facades like icing on a stale cake.

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Ideas, doctrines - mere façades, decorative fantasies, accidents. If you have not resolved to kill yourself, there is no difference between you and the others, you belong to the faction of the living, all - no matter what their convictions - great believers. Do you deign to breathe? You are approaching sainthood, you deserve canonization.

The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallized beside the road.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

The thought struck me that she would always look beautiful, even when she was being ugly. Hers was a big, lovely, empty face: the face of a pom-pom girl at a football match, the face advertisers use to help them sell preposterous and irrelevant things.

Henry looked at her. You're an odd one, sweet. You can't dissemble. She looked at him. What are you talking about? Well, as a general rule, most women, before they've got 'em, present to their men smiling, agreeable faces. They hide their thoughts. You now, when you're feeling hateful, honey, you ARE hateful.