Facades Quotes

Behind the façade of robes and incense, clerical privilege was allowed to trump the Gospel

You must fight not only against open fascism but also against concealed fascism which parades under the mask of “socialism.”

Attacking communists was generally nothing more than a smokescreen for attacking the CIO.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

That is what politics is really about—reality and not image.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

I went to school in the Bronx. I learned to constantly try to cover up the fact that I was gay. That facade of being somebody I'm really not just to protect myself definitely helped with acting.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

All are not merry that dance lightly.

Looks can be deceiving.

I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

I am a man of a thousand faces, all of them blacklisted.