“A sweetened poison may go down more easily but will kill you just as surely.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
“We seldom look like the way we look like when people we like are looking.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. — Wendy Doniger Copy Share Image
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Looking the part is not my role. So do not expect to see an image of pretense in my life. Because that… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to… — James MacArthur Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Various "wars on drugs" throughout history have killed millions, enslaved millions more, destroyed families, are usually just thin pretenses for mass incarceration,… — Kool A.D Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else,… — Leonid Borodin Copy Share Image
Audiences will see what they want to see. Some will come out, hopefully enjoying two hours of action. Some people will find… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a… — William Rawle Copy Share Image
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
