“Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. — Charles Dickens 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
If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence. — Thomas Paine 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
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
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor… — John Greenleaf Whittier 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
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of… — Adyashanti 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
Vermonters are not only charmless of manner, on the whole; they are also, as far as I can judge, utterly without pretence,… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Bad friends say nice things to your face, and then turn around and paint you black.” — John Joclebs Bassey Copy Share Image
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was… — Ann Bridge 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
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
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing. — Rebecca West 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
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man:… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
