Pretence Quotes

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. - Mary Astell

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

This government's budget is barely six months old and it's already been blown to smithereens... The government seems to have abandoned all pretence of control on the public purse. - Kevin Taft

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. - Joe Wilson

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. - Mary Astell

That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act- - Jim Morrison

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. - James Russell Lowell

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is respelled by it. - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free. - George Berkeley