Quotes About Facade

You are a blank screen. Float through life noncommittally and people will want to seize you and consume you. Of all the parts of your body that draw this fetishistic attention, the strongest is the face; so learn to tune your face like an instrument, making it radiate a fascinating vagueness for effect.

The Laws of Human Nature, 16: See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Façade—The Law of Aggression

Si tienes una cara dulce y un aire inocente, emite indicios de algo oscuro, e incluso vagamente cruel, en tu carácter.

An emphatic trait often conceals it's opposite

We have learned to limit our emotions to such an extent that we won't let others in and we can't get out. We invest an inordinate amount of time and energy maintaining a façade, an image to hide behind.

Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.

smiling a fixed smile that never touched his eyes.

safe haven of murderers, the native land and cover for cardsharps, the general lure for loose women

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.

Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.

I have started smiling! I've mastered this smirk; it's a smile that isn't a smile.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.