Pretences Quotes

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

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

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by. - Oliver Cromwell

I always thought this kind of award meant that it was over. I'm here, I think, under false pretences. I think I have to become straight with you. Ten years ago, 11 years ago I had a heart transplant, a total heart transplant. - Robert Altman

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. - John Buchan

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! - Charles Dickens