No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. — Buju Banton Copy Share Image
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them. — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right. It's hard… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
When other people first became aware of the cow, they expressed concern and anxiety. They suggested strategies for getting the animal out… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting… — Guy Adams Copy Share Image
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible? — Richard Matheson 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
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson 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
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
“I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
