Pretense Quotes
To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.
Everyone is watching you. If you don’t believe it, just pretend to fail and you’ll see many mockers. For this reason, work hard as if you are doing everyone’s business!
When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.
In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad.
I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.
Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.
The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.
It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.
The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.
