Pretext Quote by Carlo Goldoni Download Open image “Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.” — Carlo Goldoni ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pretext Use Wisdom Wish
Prety word are not always true, and true word are not always prety. — Kaceem Madridista Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“Hahaha..I wish this veil of pretense could hide my habit of dodging quotes but it doesn't which is why i know none yet.” — Ayesha Copy Share Image
Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered… — John Selden Copy Share Image
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
He who talks much cannot always talk well. [It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.] — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
A wise traveler never despises his own country. [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.] — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili… — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
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