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Or maybe the ugliness is in us. That's just the way we are.
Underneath the pretense of civilization. — Bethany Griffin
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
— Susan Sontag
Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.
— Marcus Aurelius
as well. Any pretense I had that I was prepared was quickly replaced with the pain I'd become
— George Hincapie
Let me thinkThinking is all I have
If wisdom is a pretense
Then let me pretend to be wise — Walter Dean Myers
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
— Alberto Moravia
Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.
— Cassandra Clare
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
— Robert Langlands
When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.
— William Shakespeare
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
— George Bernard Shaw
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
— Ayn Rand
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.
— Robert Benchley
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
— Thomas R. Marshall
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
— Elbert Hubbard
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
— Publilius Syrus
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
— George Bernard Shaw
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter - an act.
— Vera Nazarian
Pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
— Benjamin Cardozo
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
— Richard Matheson
It's a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn't proud to be it.
— Daniel Polansky
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
— Tennessee Williams
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.
— Rumi
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
— Seneca The Younger
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Men make this great pretense of not wanting to be caught, but in the end they usually beg for a lady's hand.
— Elizabeth Boyle
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
— Charles Churchill
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
— Marlon Riggs
Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.
— Katherine Reay
Hahaha!!!...I wish this veil of pretense could hide my habit of dodging quotes but dissapointingly,it doesn't,which is why,I know none yet.
— Ayesha Harruna Attah
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
— Ted Simmons
The world is full of cravens who pretended to be heroes.
— George R R Martin
To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
— Sunday Adelaja
We seldom look like the way we look like when people we like are looking.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.
— Ann Whitman
Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.
— Sreesha Divakaran
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin
Expectations are illusions; Pretense they hang on thin threads. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage
— Anna Kendrick
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
— Eugene O'Neill
There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.
— Jamie Arpin-Ricci
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!
— Charles Dickens
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
— Stephen Schwartz
Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.
— Olivia Wilde
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
— John Podhoretz
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
— William S. Burroughs
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
— Rene Dubos
For this was a kiss of definition. A kiss of understanding. For a marriage absent pretense. And a love without design.
— Renee Ahdieh
I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church ...
without some cash in my wallet. — Toba Beta
Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
— Stella Benson
What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
— Robert Harris
I kept the coffee pot in my office on the pretense of monitoring Cookie's caffeine intake. Actually, it was my answer to potpourri.
— Darynda Jones
Employment is an employee's kissing of an employer's ass. A salary is the employer's pretense to be cleaning his ass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask. — Toba Beta
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
— Aleister Crowley
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
— James Patterson
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
— Edith Wharton
The worst thing about being a writer is having to pretend you know what you're talking about.
— Marty Rubin
No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.
— Randy Alcorn
It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.
— Lynn Flewelling
we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.
— Lee Strobel
How wide is all this long pretense!There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert
To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
