Ostensible Quotes

When the public sees what the choice is, we think it's an easy choice. It's really an arcane law set up for, if not legal monopolies, ostensible monopolies. - Alan Ciamporcero

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. - Henry Knox

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. - Emile M. Cioran

It seems that there was a two-track program here. Otherwise, why would they share the final working-group report with Hill and Miller but not with the lawyers who were its ostensible authors? - Martin Lederman

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. - Breyten Breytenbach

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the new year. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. - Theodore Roosevelt