Quotes About Facade

Appearances and manners often cloak a black soul.

As they pulled up to 88–22 Parsons Boulevard—a large red-brick square

The poor misguided soul described me as generous, "a champion for the department and particularly its students"; he went on to say that my disagreeable nature was "at least 50 percent façade" and that "Fitger behaves like more of an ass than he actually is." Janet described these comments as persuasive praise.

It's a real handicap to have a face with shifty eyes.

almost everybody I met gave me, ungrudging, only affability. As long as things did not go any further, everyone put up a fine show. ... Shut off by a wall of affability, I was always completely alone.

le visage est le pont jeté entre le moi et celui des autres

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Appearances are deceiving.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

A sheep in wolves clothing!

at first sight everyone seems like human.

When it comes to suffering, appearance is everything.