Quotes About Facade

I am warm on the outside, what people see. Warm eyes, warm face, warm fucking fake smile, but inside I am cold all the time, and full of lies. I am not what I seem to be; I am awful.

It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long.

even when it felt like a hollow performance.

Satan's activity mimics his nature: he deceives by hiding the hideous nature of sin under a facade of attractiveness. He

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say.

He looks like a lost puppy, but has the heart of a bitch.

she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see...

Then she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see

You just have to play it cool. You don't want everyone to know you're an amateur.

What a handsome pair! Strange thoughts assail me as it becomes plain to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name. The show of unity is only for the world.

The appearance of right often leads us wrong.

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

She turned and leant upon the wall. She did not want to show him her face. It was the sort of face that expressed its owner's feelings much too openly. If Bel were happy, if she were sad, if she received a sudden shock it was written in her face for all the world to see. She had often wished for a "poker face" but never more than now.

Very few of us are what we seem.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

All hat, no cattle...doing whatever it took to keep up the appearance of wealth, when in reality he is no better off than anyone else. - Texas saying

Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is only more facade.

We were taught to always put on a good face, even when things are going poorly. We were told to "keep sweet," an admonition to be compliant and pleasant no matter the circumstance. Since we couldn't reveal our angry words and feelings, they got bottled up inside, and often there was no communication at all.

Other People's Perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves.....Sara to Amanda

I don't really like you, but I'm so good at acting as if I do that it's basically the same thing.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.

Strength is an empty shell.

Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative.