Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary for a… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
“Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
“The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it",… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown. — Plato Copy Share Image
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist,… — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
