Quotes About Facade

Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.

loved only the illusion, the mirror face you chose to show me. I wonder which of us I pity more.

Nice is often just powerlessness with a smile.

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them. I didn't want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

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

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It's not that he doesn't smile; it's that if his smile were something you drew, you'd erase it, thinking, Wrong.

It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.

I smile. I lie.

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

I give him a smile I don't really own.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

My beard is just an ongoing effort to hide my face as much as possible.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.