Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses… — Lionel Strachey Copy Share Image
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will… — Henry Miller 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
Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
For a fact, the Christians stole Christmas. We don't mind sharing it with them, but we don't like this pretense of theirs… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of the Jews. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of… — Gideon Raff Copy Share Image
I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come.… — Jimmy Wayne Copy Share Image
“Above the keyhole the door has a latch. It is pretending to be an authentic old latch. The door is pretending to… — Ali Smith 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
