Facades Quotes

"That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' " ~ Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling "Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial." ~ Othello by William Shakespeare All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare