Pretext Quote by Carlo Goldoni

“If I had three magic wishes, I’d use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something…

— Jarod Kintz

“If a magic genie, from a lamp, offered me three wishes, I'd use one to wish you a happy birthday. So 33 percent would…

— Jarod Kintz

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

— Edmund Burke

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno

There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

— Leon Trotsky

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

— Guy Sajer

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of…

— Robert Lewis Hinkle

[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear…

— Ernest Jones

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out…

— Richard Whately