Fanny Brice Quotes

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I'm really good at pretending.

I don't like affectation.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

I'm just very good at pretending.

Style equals pretense.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

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.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

I've been living a lie all my life.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.