Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. — Joseph Glanvill 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
“Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.” — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
“So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature. — James Payn 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
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
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
“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
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
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
“What she couldn’t stand, she said, was pretence of any kind, especially the pretence of desire, wherein someone feigned the need to… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
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
After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away.… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such… — William Hazlitt 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
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
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
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
“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;… — W.E.B. Du Bois 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
“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
“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
“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
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him. — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
