Pretense Quotes
166 quotes by 146 authors
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I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world…
— Holly Lisle
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Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up…
— Kristin Cashore
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Ah, those were the days…The Dark-Hunters hunted us, we slaughtered them. We made our homes in underground catacombs and crypts where the Hunters couldn’t go…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be.…
— Jim Morrison
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It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis…
— Tim O'Brien
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We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
— Megan Hart
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They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of?…
— Dodie Smith
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‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?†I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.†“Good? 
— Maria V. Snyder
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I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from…
— Rick Yancey
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You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has…
— Thomas Bernhard
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We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude.…
— Thomas Paine
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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
— C.E. Murphy
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Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her…
— Laini Taylor
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The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate. Once they could talk, the first question…
— Joe Haldeman
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The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only…
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Pretense Quotes
146 authors contributed a total of 166 Pretense Quotes, led by these top contributors: