Quotes About Facade

Jovial" had always been a pretext - the kind of hearty banter that covered up greater and lesser crimes.

The amount of all the pretending she'll have to do exhausts her.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

A smile is a door that is both open and closed.

He'd acted like he wasn't even wet.

She dried her tears, and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow; Nor did discern how all the while That full heart throbbed to overflow. With that sweet look and lively tone, And bright eye shining all the day, They could not guess, at midnight lone How she would weep the time away.

Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People fake things so much. Put on a happy face and show off your perfect life.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

But that's not the way love goes. You show the good, disguise the bad.

Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.

It is little men know of women their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face. And Shobha had worn the mask of a strong woman for so long, no one, including her, bothered to look beneath it to see the fragile mess she was. *

I think most people are weirder and more messed up than they would let other people know.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I'm not confident at all. You just pretend you are.

Style equals pretense.

People might look great on the outside but they all have something that they're dealing with.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

I don't gotta act hard... People be getting face tattoos to act hard.

Look through the unfinished entrance facade, note blue sky where the stained-glass windows would have been, and ponder the struggles, triumphs, and failures of the human spirit.

Beneath this facade of needlessness and wantlessness, all Nice Guys are actually extremely needy. Consequently, when they go about trying to get their needs met, Nice Guys are frequently indirect, unclear, manipulative, and controlling.

They used the façade of Bork's pinched academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.