Pretence Quotes
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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
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
— Angela Carter
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
The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!
— Max Reinhardt
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
— Charles Simmons
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
— Marcus Aurelius
Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.
— Sunday Adelaja
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense
— Munia Khan
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
— Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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
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
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
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
— James Russell Lowell
Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
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
