Quotes About Facade

Thw world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

I served everyone automatically, keeping a big smile on my face, but inside I felt like a jar lid that's been twisted on too tight.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

She had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

He laughed with a kind of mirthless bark.

Morelli got Briggs a glass. "Don't let the curtains on the windows and the toaster in the kitchen fool you. I'm even less civilized than she is.

He just didn't want to see how damaged she was. As long as she didn't show him, that was all he asked for. A good show.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

Devant une facade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.

Your cynicism is simply a pose.

She looked like something that might have occured to Ibsen in one of his less frivolous moments.

fine figure of a young fellow as far northwards as the neck, but above that solid concrete.

I don't want you to think that I'm so good as you put it. I have a little evil side, too. I just keep it well hidden. - Victor Van Allen

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

The girl who laughs and talks a lot and seems very happy, is also the girl who may cry herself to sleep.