Top 13 Pretense Quotes - Quoted Daily

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Sometimes, Posing, Pretense

Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

Normal, Pretense

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

People, Live By, Pretense

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Fraud, Pretense

"Ultramares Corp. v. Touche, 255 N.Y. 170, 179, 174 N.E. 441, 444". 1931.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

Heart, Giving, Pretense

Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Piety, Pretense

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Mind, Mischief, Pretense

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

Oil, Pretense

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.31, The Floating Press

There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.

School, Sincere, Pretense

"Three Exemplary Novels and a Prologue". Book by Miguel de Unamuno, 1920.

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

Changed, Understood, Pretense

(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

Hypocrisy, Palin, Pretense

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

Home, Where You Are, Pretense

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Men, Study, Pretense

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