“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. — Buju Banton Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important. — Lucas Till Copy Share Image
“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense… — Paolo Pellegrin Copy Share Image
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a god comes," Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“Like that breeder-woman sitting at the bar, who thinks it's a buzz to go into a gay joint and has no doubt… — Johanna Sinisalo Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“That dung flop?” Nakita said, her dislike almost visibly dripping into nasty puddles at Amy’s designer flats. “Yes, I guess. That doesn’t… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Expectations are illusions; Pretense they hang on thin threads.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image