Pretense Quotes

This appointment shows the Planned Parenthood board of directors has abandoned all pretenses that PPFA is a health care organization. - Jim Sedlak

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me. - Elizabeth I

The wretched war had destroyed not only their country but all their presumptions of human self-regard. What a scant, foolish pretense was a family, a culture, a place in history, when it was all so easily defamed. And God was behind this. - E. L. Doctorow

The strength of women is the pretense of weakness, and the weakness of men is the pretense of strength. - Unknown

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The list of detained journalists is getting longer. The Gambian government does what it likes, without any pretense of legality. How far will it be able to go before it has to face a real protest from the member states of the African Union, whose next summit Gambia is supposed to host? - Reporters Without Borders

The level of criticism is fairly warranted. So you either do it the right way, which involves a playoff, or you go back to where there was no pretense that there was somebody [matched together] playing for the national championship. You just played the bowls, and the pollsters ranked 'em however they wanted and we lived with the controversy. - Scott Cowen

The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become. - Bill Clinton