“ A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. ”
- E. M. Forster- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade. ”
- Robert Grudin- Copy
- 399
“ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 56
“ This above all, — to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.2K
“ That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin'. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2.7K
“ She stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation out of the other. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.9K
“ There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 75
“ Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be doing the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the facade-piercing interview. ”
- Mike Wallace- Copy
- 2.5K
“ We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade tot he void. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The real menace of barbarism is that it tends to be hidden behind a facade. ”
- Lionel Rubinoff- Copy
- 3.2K
“ All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 1.4K
“ He had a certain air of being a handsome man — which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man — which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 3.3K
“ If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 2.1K
“ A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Let's honor our mistakes by allowing them to teach us. Let's consider our failings to be gifts, and share them humbly with others. Let the cracks in our perfect facades let in light and air so that new life can grow through them. ”
- Molly Gordon- Copy
- 2.4K
“ President Bush uses a lot of broad language and imagery when he speaks. It makes him sound determined and decisive, but when you get behind that facade and look at the actions, you see flip-flop. Make no mistake about it, George W. Bush knows exactly what flip-flopping is… ”
- Frank Lautenberg- Copy
- 410
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