Pretense is the oil that lubricates society. —
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fraud includes the
pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. —
Benjamin Cardozo

No
pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find. —
Buju Banton

I would act, pretend, and the
pretense would become real. —
Susan Hill

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

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no
pretenses. —
Victoria Moran

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no
pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. —
David Pajo

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

If we get separated there's not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the
pretense of hope because that may be all we have. —
Susan Ee

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

Humanity's favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn't know. —
Marty Rubin

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

There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't. —
Marty Rubin

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

Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it. —
Pawan Mishra

We labored under the
pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. —
Megan Hart

Be niggards of advice on no
pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. —
Alexander Pope

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the
pretense of false wholeness. —
Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Secrets find a way out in sleep ... It is the place where there is no
pretense. —
Bell Hooks

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

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is
pretense. —
Ethan Hawke

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing. —
Stella Benson

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of
pretense and of cheapness. —
Emily Post

When I passed forty I dropped
pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. —
Maya Angelou

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

In that moment there was no
pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete. —
Anne Perry

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

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. —
Patrick Rothfuss

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

Please help me explain to the people that I have not yet learned how to be a heartless murderer and a sweet prince at the same time.- Prince Ikan —
Ray Anyasi

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

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. —
Alan Moore

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

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the
pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. —
H.L. Mencken

First one tells a lie; then one believes it; then one becomes it. —
Marty Rubin