Pretense Quotes

Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what to do about the Act's limitation of tax credits to state Exchanges.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

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

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.

Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.

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!

of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.

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.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

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

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

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.

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.

One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

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

There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

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

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

I don't impressed if you're a religious person.I just wanna know about soul behind that mask.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

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.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Being called ‘love’ or ‘my love’ by someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you are loved or even liked by them.

I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Fiction: a game of pretend.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.