Pretense Quotes

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with tw...

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend t...

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

There was always a screen behind which one could hide— a superior who in turn had his superior— orde...

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but...

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admir...

I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utter...

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever f...

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of ...