Pretence Quotes

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Happy, Care

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Havelock Ellis

Love, Jealousy, Alive

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

Character, Impossible, Whole

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

Alone, Fight, May

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy

Life, Love, Work

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

Pain, Greatest, May

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Ai Weiwei

Art, Society, Human

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

Love, God, Wisdom

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn

Education, Universal, England

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn

Literature, Later, Highly

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike

Time, Give, Said

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Charles Simmons

Fire, Find, Malice

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