Pretense Quotes
Pretense Quote of the day
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
How can one be pleasing to God when one is inflated with pride and self-love under the pretense of striving for Gods glory, while in fact one is seeking ones own glory?
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.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.
I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.
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.
This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.
There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.
The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.
Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
