Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love…

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

— George Herbert

“Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.”

— James McMurtry

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though…

— Rob Sheffield

“Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.”

— Cassandra Clare

“He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first.”

— Cassandra Clare

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward…

— Cassandra Clare

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

— Cassandra Clare

there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

— Cassandra Clare

Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to…

— Cassandra Clare

Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and…

— Cassandra Clare

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

— Mary Jo Putney

“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist…

— Masha Gessen