Quotes About Facade

Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility.

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.

Just because a person smiles all the time doesn't mean their life is perfect. That smile is a symbol of hope and strength.

NEVER be fooled by what you see on the outside, because on the inside it's often a different story.

I act like I'm fine. Everyone thinks I'm okay, yet when the lights are off & I'm all alone, that is when the tears start to fall.

he never dared to allow this smile a definite expression on his features,

Se o rosto de uma mulher é dificilmente interpretado pelos nossos olhos, que não podem aplicar-se a toda essa superfície movediça, aos lábios, mais ainda, à memória; se nuvens o alteram conforme sua posição social e conforme a altura em que estamos situados, que cortina mais espessa ainda está corrida entre os atos daquela a quem vemos, e suas razões!

Gezichten kennen vele mimieken, die allemaal wel iets weergeven van wat daarachter leeft, maar het evengoed kunnen vertekenen.

By focusing on the male violence against women, coming to the surface in rape, and by trying to make this a public issue, feminists have unwittingly touched one of the taboos of civilised society, namely that this is a 'peaceful society'. … The very fact that rape has now become a public issue had helped to tear the veil from the facade of so-called civilised society and has laid bare its hidden, brutal, violent foundations.

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

They were no lovers; they were, apparently, husband and wife.

one again, even if it was a painted smile. Sometimes a painted smile was the only one you had.

who was sitting here before him in full flesh and makeup.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

He looks like a horse in a man costume!

Buffoons may have serious faces behind their mask!

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Framed to make women false.

Every heart has pain only the way of expressing is different. Fools hide it in tears while the brilliant hides in their smile.

And people who do hideous things do not look like people who do hideous, things. There is no "face of evil." If we could somehow subtract all its horrifying connotations, the actual face of Saddam I Hussein looks rather avuncular, and has often been recorded as having a big friendly smile. Hitler's face, had it not become an icon of evil because of the atrocities his life engendered, might be considered almost comical, Ch