Humans Quote by Janet Frame

I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

— Janet Frame

We assume that others are receiving the kind of appreciation we want for ourselves, and we proceed on the assumption that since we are…

— Thomas Merton

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

— Tom Stoppard

You caught me under false pretenses.

— Muse

“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

— Confucius

Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between…

— Bruno Schulz

The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that…

— H. L. Mencken

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

— Miguel de Unamuno

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

— Billy Sunday

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who…

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

— Anonymous

“BDSM is about dropping the pretenses; I want you completely exposed.”

— Sierra Cartwright

“How can man become complete? From the world’s point of view, he will become Truth when he eliminates his false world and false self.”

— Woo Myung

“No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, then we can say that the principle of…

— Dada Bhagwan