Quotes About Facade

The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.

We have the facade of a functioning capitalist democracy but underneath it is a species of corporate totalitarianism.

I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.

Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

if someone smiles at you it does not mean they're happy. It just means "I think that if I smile I might get out of this alive!" [ http://brickmag.com/interview-tsitsi-... ]

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

Pierce through the livid face of a human being at certain moments as they ponder, look behind the facade, look into the soul, look into the darkness. There, beneath the outer silence, titanic struggles are taking place. What a somber thing is this infinity that each man carries within him and against which he measures in despair what his his brain wants and what his life puts into action!

Era un individuo sulla sessantina, con una faccia da uomo d'affari e un'aria da briccone: due cose che spesso vanno insieme.

Smiling too brightly

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.

His smiles had been pickled things, as though they'd been preserved in vinegar on some earlier occasion, to be pulled out to act as garnish to his artfully plated expressions.

It was only an illusion, but a perfect illusion.

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

He looks," Simon had once said to Isabelle, "like he's thinking about something deep and meaningful, but if you ask him what it is, he'll punch you in the face.

He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a heap while a grinning smile stayed plastered on his face.

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is paying attention.

It's the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.

Tucker seemed too happy to smile, his expression solemn and prayerful.

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.