Pretense quotes
-
People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.
-- Allen Drury -
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
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 -
Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
-- Ethan Hawke -
-
Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?
-- Francis Marion -
We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.
-- John Fante -
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.
-- Marlon Riggs -
-
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
-- Megan Hart -
War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
-- Omar N. Bradley -
Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.
-- Stella Benson -
-
I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.
-- Val Kilmer -
Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.
-- Victoria Moran -
(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.
-- Wendy Doniger
