Quotes About Facade

she, too, lived behind a brick wall, only hers was cleverly hidden behind a bright smile and effervescent personality.

But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

There are words, looks that can kill, no one notices, everybody is clinging to a facade, a complete distortion.

Hitch-hiking is a situational stage for karmic expression and discovery. "Getting there" is simply an excuse for the opportunity to go below our cultural facades and come face-to-face with the realities of living.

on the façade of the house the lighted candles opened eyes of gold within the window frames.

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

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

No one was who they seemed. Everyone was more.

He was like Pinocchio. A man made of wood, mimicking humanity. Shiny and smiling and fake. And if you cut into him you'd see rings. Circles of deceit and scheming and justification. It's what he was made of. That hadn't changed.

her face set in a pleasant smile with a base note of smoky resentment and a hint of smug.

This was a walled world. With a pretense of control, without the reality of it.

You can put perfume on a pig, but it still stinks!

Every philosophy is a façade-philosophy' – such is the hermit's judgement … Every philosophy also conceals a philosophy; every opinion is also a hiding-place; every word is also a mask. (Beyond Good and Evil, 289)

She always seemed dead anyway, but nicely so, like an illustration or an advertisement.

She smiled at him as if butter wouldn't melt

We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

Behind my smile is everything youll never understand.

This is looking like a contest of who can act like they care less.