Quotes About Facade

Perhaps she thought, this was the way everything in America actually was- all smoke and mirrors, with only illusions of grandeur.

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Anyone looking at her would think she was fine. Because Margot is always fine, even when she's not.

It's fine," I say in a voice that is the exact opposite of fine.

Hi!" I say cheerfully, as if I weren't just contemplating backing away before he saw me.

The shoe may be smooth and neat without, while the flesh is pinched within. There may be much calmness and stillness outwardly, and yet wonderful confusion, bitterness, disturbance and vexation within.

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

The day of the countess's famous harvest party began with a driving rain that hammered down on all the ancient von Lingenfels castle's sore spots—springing leaks, dampening floors, and turning its yellow façade a slick, beetle-like black.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

The ego will receive the reward of moral recognition by the collective to the exact extent to which it succeeds in identifying with the persona, the collectivized façade personality – the simple reason being that this façade personality is the visible sign of agreement with the values of the collective.

was always trying to improve the appearance of the package, because he knew that the goods inside were rotten.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?

She radiated the kind of positivity that suggested barely suppressed rage.

I lose a great deal of my charm when one gets to know me better.

For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's pillow — we have our smiles, as it were, painted on. Those small, cool, quite Mona Lisa smiles that smile we must, no matter whether it's been fun or it's been not. So all cats have a politician's air; we smile and smile and so they think we're villains

Petroc Trelawney looked as pleased as a pebble can look, which was pretty much the same as he had looked before.

The truth I'm trying to convey is not a startling one, it is simply a peeling away of affectation. I use whatever gift I have to get behind the facade.

I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.