118 Quotes About Pretense

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village who, piece by piece, strips off his Sunday best, slowly changing back into a peasant as he gets closer to his home.

Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile; you’ll not realize it’s fakeThen I’ll pretendyour pretensions don’t cause me pain.

[T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

Please help me explain to the people that I have not yet learned how to be a heartless murderer and a sweet prince at the same time."- Prince Ikan

It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.