Tove Lo Quotes

The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.

I was tired of playing the goodie-two-shoes.

When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

In times of social tension we pull back on expression, and we always end up believing that it was the wrong thing to do.

Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

Hot off the presses, today’s headlines: The love of your life does not approve of my wanton flapper ways,” Evie said in a voice of affected mystery. “Really, Mabesie. You might want to reconsider—he is a bit of a killjoy.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.