Facade Quotes

#1. She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away.

Ransom Riggs

#2. I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.

Tom Waits

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

Charles Darwin

#4. I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows ... but even taking that into account, Noah was pretty much perfect.

Maureen Johnson

#5. Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

Harry Hay

#6. Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Dean Koontz

#7. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.

Adyashanti

#8. My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

Justina Chen

#9. How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?

Katie McGarry

#10. Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

David Chang

#11. Two years could change so much under the facade of changing nothing at all.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#12. Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

Mason Cooley

#13. The closet is a powerful thing. It makes you accept things you never thought you would in order to preserve the facade that you present to the outside world.

Sean Kennedy

#14. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain.. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Thomas S. Monson

#15. Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Alan Moore

#16. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

Lester Levenson

#17. Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

William James

#18. People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

Jeaniene Frost

#19. And sing along for a few bars before changing it again. By the time we reached the darkened facade of La Maison, I was starting to wonder whether there were any Snow White variants that included killing the Wicked Queen for being too annoying to be allowed to live.

Seanan McGuire

#20. Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and
tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Peter Drucker

#21. Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

James Young

#22. If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.

Minoru Yamasaki

#23. I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.

Thomas Harris

#24. Swinging back and forth
deeply stuck
in tranced forbidden dream
Wanting not to recognize
fantasy
is purely scheme
Elaborate facade
of lust
into reality
Transferring thoughts
of illusion
will be fatality

Zuky Rose Leigh

#25. They ate my humanity but no humanity in beginning humans Earth dust atoms

Clever microorganisms defy gods

But defy nothing

Phantom of truth

Beneath reality's facade

A.R. LaBaere

#26. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Other people's perfection is a facade we create when we are second guessing ourselves

Lisa Renee Jones

#28. Pride is like a facade on the exterior of our souls.

Jenni Catron

#29. I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Mel Gibson

#30. The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#31. We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.

Anna Quindlen

#32. I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.

Lupe Fiasco

#33. With everyone else, you put up this facade so you can hide the crud and make them like you. But with real friends, you show them the crud-and that makes them care. When we get rid of the facade, we connect more.

Harlan Coben

#34. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

Dan Brown

#35. When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

Jack Canfield

#36. You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

Chris Gabrieli

#37. I buried my face in the pink velvet facade of Jay Cee's love-seat and with immense relief the salt tears and miserable noises that had been prowling around in me all morning burst out into the room.

Sylvia Plath

#38. I find it difficult to believe that Redditors don't understand that anonymity online is merely a facade; indeed, it's probably one of the reasons that revealing the identity of pseudonymous Redditors is looked on as such a huge betrayal.

John Scalzi

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

Warren Farrell

#40. This wasn't the first time she saw past his facade. It probably wouldn't be the last. Yet the intimacy of having this woman know him so damn well was unnervingly welcome.

Kelly Moran

#41. Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

Warren Farrell

#42. Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves ... It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

Melvin Belli

#43. Jen's emotions, strong but invisible within an infallible Miran facade, raged with contempt. He'd met the man responsible for such despicable exploitation of his brother's life onboard the Aquarius. He didn't like him then.

He hated him now.

Marcha A. Fox

#44. When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.

LeRoy Neiman

#45. I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

Rabih Alameddine

#46. He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade ...

Robert McCammon

#47. All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Robert Grudin

#48. I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Anish Kapoor

#49. It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

David O. Selznick

#50. Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Stanislaw Lem

#51. When all is a facade, wound within webs of deception, the truth is what you make of it.

R.A. Salvatore

#52. May you realize that the shape of your soul is unique, that you have a special destiny here, that behind the facade of your life, something beautiful, good, and eternal is happening.

John O'Donohue

#53. We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

Joel Kinnaman

#54. We have this sort of false self we portray over the internet. It's a facade of highlights we believe our peers will deem noteworthy.

Chris Matakas

#55. Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

Kasie West

#56. We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.

Harold Ramis

#57. When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

Xavier Dolan

#58. When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[ ... ]

Simone Elkeles

#59. Of justice you will find none.... To judge is evil. To mete justice, more appalling still. Act from compassion and you will do better than to devise any code or facade of justice.

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

#60. The facade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with leadmarks oxidized upon the stone.

Cormac McCarthy

#61. I am who I am. There's no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn't concern me. Maybe that's the sexy part.

Gerard Way

#62. I can't say for certain. I can paper over the cracks for a while, maybe even maintain a facade of affluence, by robbing Peter to pay Paul

David Weber

#63. It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Manuel Puig

#64. He was not adept at reading Shadowhunter hearts, behind their smooth angelically arrogant facades. He thought that might be why Alec had surprised him so much, had wrong-footed him so that Magnus had stumbled into feelings he had not planned to have. Alec had no facade at all.

Cassandra Clare

#65. The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

Sydney J. Harris

#66. The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

Milton H. Erickson

#67. The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died

Donato DiCristino

#68. War would soon erode the facade of their building as though it had accelerated time itself, a day's toll outpacing that of a decade.

Mohsin Hamid

#69. Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all

Larry Winget

#70. Behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that would never show if you poked for it, but could be reached if you knew just how - and never let on that you were looking for it.

Isaac Asimov

#71. Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

Aravind Adiga

#72. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Zeena Schreck

#73. Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

Elizabeth Taylor

#74. Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

John Eldredge

#75. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#76. Betrayal dressed in love and trimmed with the facade of good intentions is the most barbaric of all betrayals.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#77. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Denis Waitley

#78. The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Lisa Unger

#79. Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Kathryn Harrison

#80. The United States can hide behind a facade simply because it is sucking the blood of other people ... The Third World people: Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Huey Newton

#81. It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

Amelia B. Edwards

#82. He presented to the world the facade of a certain kind of man who wasn't really there.

Amy Schumer

#83. Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Maggie Gallagher

#84. I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

Casey Neistat

#85. I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.

Susan Hubbard

#86. No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Murray Levin

#87. It is so obvious when a person is not hiding behind a facade but is speaking from deep within himself.

Carl R. Rogers

#88. Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

Jim Highsmith

#89. The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

Lester Levenson

#90. Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit.

Zygmunt Miloszewski

#91. Behind that rough facade, customers drank beer and danced, activities that to any good Southern Baptist invoked the Devil himself.

Tom Robbins

#92. We define only out of despair, we must have a formula ... to give a facade tot he void.

Emile M. Cioran

#93. It is what it looks like and is called. A jail. it is not a front for something else, not a facade, not a pseudonym. It is real, the real thing, the thing behind the words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#94. Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien Morel

Louisa Burton

#95. I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Peter Zumthor

#96. I've spent a lifetime practicing, becoming who I must be to survive. Hiding in plain sight, always acting, always playing a part. There are times when I fear that I'll lose me, my true self, in the haze of the facade. But that fear doesn't matter to anyone besides myself.

Sara B. Larson

#97. A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

E. M. Forster

#98. The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Edward Levi

#99. I walk the sand alone,
and feel it stirring as I roam,
upon this breathing earth,
where wave on wave begins new birth.
I sense a grand facade,
where colors paint the hand of God.
And in remorseful pain,
I dance the stones of bitter strain.

Craig Froman

#100. I have this prodigious talent for painting the person behind the facade, but with Blaine the facade is all there is left - just artifice, guile, and an expensive pair of silicone tits.

Tabitha McGowan