Sharon Bolton Quotes

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.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are much more dysfunctional than they seem. Pulling back the curtain - that felt smart. But as I got older, exposing how frail people can be seems less and less deep.

We don’t know whether what we found is a chip of ice or the tip of an iceberg.

I like the idea that I come into a room, and you think you're dealing with one thing, but the truth is I'm very layered.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

All is not gold that glisters.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

The Photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose two leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive... Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?