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He had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence.
— Stephen Fry
All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
— Rebecca West
Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.
— Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
— Tony Horwitz
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
— James Payn
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act.
— Vera Nazarian
There's something almost weightless about our world, I think, something fleeting and insubstantial that's ill at ease with any pretence of certainty.
— Deirdre Madden
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
— Marcus Aurelius
In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
— Munia Khan
Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Unbelief is a burden, but the pretence of belief, hypocrisy, is death to all that is decent in you.
— David Staines
Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!
— Max Reinhardt
Mr False Pretence, you don't make senseI just don't know you
But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye
I think I love you — Amy Winehouse
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
— Joseph Conrad
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
— James Russell Lowell
Never destroy without thought your enemy's pretences; they are usually your best weapon against him.
— Mary Renault
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
— George Berkeley
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
— James Payn
Peace between good and evil is an impossibility; the very pretence of it would, in fact, be the triumph of the powers of darkness.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
— Charles Simmons
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
— Michael Bassey Johnson