“Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses. — Emma Goldman 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
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection. — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is high time that the American people should remember a few home truths, and that we should refuse to become partners… — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
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
In many patriarchies, language, as well as cultural tradition, reserve the human condition for the male. With the Indo-European languages this is… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk,… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will… — John Gay Copy Share Image
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