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
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
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Watch out for those who celebrate your success with bitterness in their hearts! surely, they'll hail you for what you are, and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume 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
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei 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
I do not believe that the tendency is to make men and women brave and glorious when you tell them that there… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
“Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or… — Marcus Aurelius 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
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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