No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without… — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world. — Robert Langlands Copy Share Image
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods… — Mary Faustina Kowalska 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
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as… — Philip the Apostle Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And… — Ruta Sepetys 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
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is…Most people love you for who you pretend… — Jim Morrison 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
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
“Perfect' - the most misattributed word in English language A 'perfect' thing can never be improved - at least by what the… — Eniitan Akinola Copy Share Image
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. — Victoria Moran 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 Christians have made him the murderer of himself, and the founder of a new religion to supersede and expel the Jewish religion. And to find pretence and admission for these things…” quote by Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/thomas-paine-267_assassin_the-jews-have-made-him-yahweh-the-assass_2292873.jpg)
