Quotes About Facade

For Dennis Rader, life was good—both of them.

The worst feeling is saying you're ok, holding back the tears; pretending to be a happy person; while dying on the inside."

But owned that smile, if oft observed and near, Waned in its mirth, and wither'd to a sneer.

Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.

Toda a maldade, mesquinhez e malícia eram silenciosamente deixadas fermentar debaixo de uma superfície que devia parecer sempre imaculadamente limpa e pura.

I suspect we have both lived lives that appeared to have serene surfaces and were, for both of us, hollow and impossible to sustain.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask

She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.

Shit sprinkled with sugar was still shit.

This is all just corporate theater. I don't like it but accept it for what it is.

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

We smiled at each other. Ms. Vigue was doing her best to appear approachable, while I did my best to appear harmless. We were both lying as hard as we could.

Of course this chattering diary is a facade, the literary equivalent of the everyday smiling face which hides the inward ravages of jealousy, remorse, fear and the consciousness of irretrievable moral failure. Yet such pretenses are not only consolations but may even be productive of a little ersatz courage.

When I'm up to something I find it very hard to realize that I probably look no different from the way I look on other occasions.

I feel so depressed. I have to be merry and bright while I just want to cry.

behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how—and never let on that you were looking for it.

Mi vida está hecha de apariencias, no verdades.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

The art of making much show with little substance.