Quotes About Facade

it is now clear to me that behind a façade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you're supposed to be spying on.

The man's head nodded to his chest; he looked like a drunk who had dozed off. But it was an act.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

You look, eat, smile, are bored, pleased, annoyed - that is all I know. Yet this shadow which has sat by me for an hour or two, this mask from which peep two eyes, has power to drive me back, to pinion me down among all those other faces, to shut me in a hot room; to send me dashing like a moth from candle to candle.

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface—chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

Marilyn smiled back, a fake smile. The same one she had given to her mother all those years. You lifted the corners of your mouth toward your ears. You kept your lips closed. It was amazing how no one could tell.

everything had to be beautiful and perfect on the outside, no matter what mess lay within

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

It had all been an illusion, Lucien knew. The buildings, the arches, the sweeping, graceful lines. All this time he had been worshipping a facade of concrete and glass. Lucien

They have no heart attack, since they have no heart. (De crise cardiaque ils n'ont, - Puisque de cœur ils n'ont.)

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

All is gas and gaiters.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.

He started a sarcastic smile, but quenched it, according to the etiquette of his profession.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Cette bonne humeur qu'il affichait en toutes circonstances cachait sa part d'ombre et de souffrance et son naturel jovial cédait quelquefois la place aux idées noires et au découragement.

I smile all the time so that nobody knows how sad and lonely I am.

I smile all the time so that nobody knows how sad and lonely I really am.

People don't fake depression they fake being ok. Remember that.