Facade Quotes

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

What can it matter to us what tinsel the sick may use to cover up their weakness? Let them parade it as their virtue; after all, there is no doubt that weakness makes one mild, oh so mild, so righteous, so inoffensive, so humane!

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself-in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity-is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Beware the false motives of others. Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers. And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you.

People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough bitch, and say I start talking to them like a lonely little girl-that's not in their image of me-they don't see it. Say you meet somebody you've heard about, you don't ever see them, you don't see who they are and who they need to be recognized as, you see who you need them to be.

People think I'm an ogre at times. Some girls hissed at me in the street...'You devil.' They think we're really nasty. But that's only on stage. Off stage, well I'm certainly not an ogre.

I can't help myself because basically I'm a softie I have this hard, macho shell - which I project on stage but there's a much softer side. too, which melts like butter.

Dying on the inside, but outside you're looking fearless.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.