False emotions Quotes

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Too excited to be genuinely happy

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

In love, anger is always false.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

One expresses well only the love he does not feel.

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.