Facade Quotes · Page 2

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

— Robert Ringer

“Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.”

— Stephen Magnus

Peel back the facade of rigorous methodology projects and ask why the project was successful, and the answer is people.

— Jim Highsmith

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

— John Eldredge

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

— Eva Green

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

— Alan Moore

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

— Chris Gabrieli

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It…

— Lionel Richie

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

— John Astin

“Most people don't have facades," Natalie said drily. "Oh everyone thinks they do, but when you dig below the facade, there is…

— lisa kleypas

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need…

— Rabih Alameddine

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a…

— David Arquette

We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point…

— Harold Ramis

“Although she was no longer weeping and appeared remarkably composed, I knew that behind that facade, someone was breaking inside. Piece by…

— Shahid Hussain Raja

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you…

— Zeena Schreck

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its…

— Anonymous

“We might feel that we must demonstrate explicitly when we’re upset, or not upset. This perceived need may stem from our family…

— Alexandra Katehakis

Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know…

— William A. Rusher

You see, all that I ever held dear has been taken from me," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "And when you've…

— Ken Follett

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if…

— Tony Benn

If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive…

— Fernando Pessoa

I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a…

— Thomas Harris

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…

— Leon Krier

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

— Glenn Ligon

In the facades we put on for others we demonstrate our potential; through our children we reveal our reality.

— Lawrence Kelemen

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

— Murray Levin

“Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?”

— Arthur Miller

When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?

— Ellen Hopkins

I'm not capable of slapping on a quick professional facade. It's exhausting.

— Harris Dickinson

“Behind the facade of elected government are a bunch of corporate controlled gangsters running the country.”

— Steven Magee

Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.

— Mason Cooley

In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

— Jeaniene Frost

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

— Warren Farrell

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin'…

— Wyclef Jean

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

— Harry Hay

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

— Austin O'Malley

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

— Stanislaw Lem

“You can’t preach things like spirituality, yoga, or animal activism to someone who hasn’t had a decent meal in days...”

— Dr. Deepak S. Hiwale aka 'Dr Dee