Potemkin Quotes

“In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I will build the best Potemkin village for you, my love!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

“The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.”
― Eleanor Herman, Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

“In a sense, the media is a moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact.”
― Visakan Veerasamy