Quotes About Facade

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.

The Hollywood actor business can be a little shallow and can be a little more of a facade, and Nashville and the South, people are genuine and real, so if I can be based out there and go off to Hollywood to do a film or do another TV show and then fly back to Nashville, I'd be set.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

It must be hard being you," she said. "Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside." "It's not that hard. The rest of the world isn't as insightful as you.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.

In my family we do an exceptional job pretending that everything is OK.

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

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

It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Even better liars can put on a convincing smile, but their eyes aren´t smiling.

Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.

Too many countries of the former Soviet bloc remain under the control of authoritarian leaders, including some, like the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who have learned how to maintain a more convincing facade of elections than their communist predecessors.

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes.

Beauty is enhanced by unashamed irregularities; magnificence by a façade of blunder

Mom puts on a smile that looks like it belongs on somebody else's face.

A forced smile is uglier than a frown.

Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

You see through the facade of the world, Citra Terranova. You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement.

The smile on my face is only there to mask what I'm feeling inside.