Top 172 Facade Quotes & Sayings

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

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.

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

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

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

When I first got to Cannes, I was very insecure about everything, so I put on this extravagant facade. Can you blame me? I was 19.

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

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

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

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.

My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on façade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

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

It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

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

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

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

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

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

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

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

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

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.

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

Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

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

I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart to see him suffer like this - but where my genuine concern for him ended and where my self-interest began, I could not tell: no servant can ever tell what the motives of his heart are. "Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing? "We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

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

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

For me, the whole fame and industry facade is a load of rubbish.

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.

Momofuku is not me. It's everyone. I'm just the facade. We have to exceed expectations and be our harshest critics.

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

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.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

Strength is a facade for the proud, weakness is a mask for the lazy.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

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

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.