Quotes About Facade

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.

Troy had always thought of pipes as a way of passing off vacuity as thought, the hollow man's way of seeming less than hollow.

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...

Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.

The mirrors of his face gleamed all the wrong ways when he smiled.

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.

but she knew also that what the world sees of the life of any human creature is not the real life; that life is lived in secret, a reality that moves behind the facade of appearance, like wind behind a painted curtain; only an occasional ripple of the surface, a smile, a sudden light or shadow passing on a face, surprising by its unexpectedness, gives news of something quite other than what is seen.

How can I look so real everyday, when really I'm just a cardboard cut-out image of myself-lamenated in coats of artifical happiness with shiny plastic all around- so quite I should be a mime- I wrap my arms around myself when I go out in the wind because I don't know how to make sure that I won't blow away- and I'm standing with my eyes closed so I won't have to see the ground when I fall...

This is my social face," he said lightly. "Don't confuse it with the animal beneath.

That until now she was a Christmas tree that had been decorated by someone who hated Christmas.

Goûtons un peu ce simulacre de bonheur

We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.

Customary outside, inconsolable inside!

Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

It is hard to find the soul of Mick Jagger. It is very hidden. I think his true personality has receded so far behind the facade that he can no longer find the real person himself.

I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

Yeah! I'm eccedentesiast because I know No-one is going to understand my pain.

And sometimes you just don't know what's going on inside of people. People always seem so perfect on the surface. But it's not always the case. Everyone hides things.