Quotes About Facade

Can I borrow your face for a few days while my butt is on vacation?

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I pretended to be super-cool and not be bothered by things and play off any kind of heartache when I was younger, for sure.

No one realizes how much pain is hidden behind my smile.

Ornamentation, festoons, carvings, cartouches, bas-reliefs, countless surprises among the sculptures - and the tones of the facades weathered by time and rain, the pinks of fading twilight, smoky blues, misty greys, a richness of mildew, brickwork ripened by the years, the hues of a ruddy or anaemic complexion.

She could scarcely help admiring his appearance, but she had not fallen in love with his face, or his figure, and certainly not with his air of elegance. He had considerable charm of manner, but she decided that it was not that either. She thought it might be the humour that lurked in his eyes, or perhaps his smile.

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

It had been foolish of Dothaw to underestimate Vyell's intiative, but many men looked at his size and the beauty of his face and assumed that there could be nothing but witless amiability behind such a facade, an assumption which Vyell was not above fostering.

It takes intelligence to act dumb.

Bearded peasant goes in one end of an alley, clean-shaven gentleman comes out the other? Really?" "It's a classic!

to present a relatively placid, untroubled appearance to others, while suffering extreme distress on the inside."c

I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

That was the first time I ever saw him smile. It transformed him from someone menacing to someone you wished you knew.

When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

There is death. Making his way through all of it. On the surface: unflappable, unwavering. Below: unnerved, untied, and undone.

they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

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.

For what is our civilised world but a big masquerade? where you meet knights, priests, soldiers, men of learning, barristers, clergymen, philosophers, and I don't know what all! But they are not what they pretend to be; they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers.

Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

You never wanted me to be real. You never wanted anyone to be. But you didn't want me to show it. You wanted an act to help your act...

The saddest people smile the brightest