I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Certainly each side - the 'absolutists' and the 'constructivists' or 'humanists', as I've labelled them - accuses the other of hubris, and… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Aeroplanes are not designed by science, but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not… — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
Of course, we need not be surprised if artistic excellence goes unrecognized on account of being unknown; but there should be the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
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