Diana Vreeland Quotes

Style equals pretense.

And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

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

It’s a phoney war

Canting hypocrisy

I'm not so much concerned with the natural bastards as I am with the self-made ones.

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

Artifice is art.

It's a vain craft, acting.

There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.

I think the celebrities today, not all of them, but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

I can't stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.

Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.