Pretense Quotes

166 quotes by 146 authors

Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another? — Francis Marion
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is… — Frederic Bastiat
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free… — Henry Fuseli
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward
The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly… — H. L. Mencken
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. — Criss Jami
Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on… — Ron Fournier
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. — Emmet Fox
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. — Aleister Crowley
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is… — Eric Hoffer
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -… — Washington Irving
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with… — Jim Morrison
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion. — John Podhoretz
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible… — Thomas Sowell
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent. — John Tillotson

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