Pretense Quotes

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. - Emmet Fox

You caught me under false pretenses. - Muse

We're just trying to make this career livable. We just want to go back to work under the pretense of it being a fair working condition. - Jason Stein

We tend to think of security issues as being computer-based. But many scam artists use the telephone and simple false pretenses to trick people out of data. - Chris Hoofnagle

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

We gave them a lot of money under false pretenses. It's going to remain an issue until they give that money back. - Brad Heavner

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. - Charles Churchill