Pretence Quote by Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Download Open image “Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.” — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretence Simplicity
Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important. — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
The first rule for speaking well is to think well. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Would you be esteemed? Live with persons that are estimable. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
The love of esteem is the life and soul of society; it unites us to one another: I want your approbation, you stand in… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
The most necessary disposition to relish pleasures is to know how to be without them. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble… — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands… — Lewis Carroll 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 (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I… — Charles Dickens 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 youth to… — Kurt Hahn Copy Share Image
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image