Famous Quotes
24 Quotations with Pretense.
- 1. Eric Hoffer: Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some p ...
- 3. Joseph Conrad: The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too muc ...
- 4. Thomas Jefferson: I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from ...
- 5. Havelock Ellis: Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
- 6. Thomas Jefferson: If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the ...
- 7. Maya Angelou: A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A ...
- 8. Publilius Syrus: He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
- 9. Henry Miller: I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them ...
- 10. William A. Sunday: If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false preten ...
- 11. Arianna Stassinopoulos: It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes ...
- 12. The Holy Bible: Let the alms giver give freely and those who do works of mercy do them cheerfull ...
- 13. Carter Heyward: Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a ...
- 14. Arthur Schopenhauer: Most of the glories of the world are mere outward show, like the scenes on a sta ...
- 15. Jonathan Swift: Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
- 16. Friedrich Schlegel: Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain pru ...
- 17. David Harold Fink: Successful people have cultivated the habit of never denying to themselves their ...
- 18. Lewis H. Lapham: Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and ...
- 19. John Tillotson: The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark ...
- 20. Karen Horney: The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for whol ...