Quotes About Pretense

Exactly so! declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. I am a humbug. But

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

Not knowing is okay, he had once said, but pretending to know is not.

For some people a façade is necessary even with friends

How many times do you keep yourself from God-consciousness when you try to pretend you are great and holy and you try to shield that negative part of you? In my consciousness there is a support and in the support there is an equal negative and an equal positive. There are always two balances in each personality which balances the very rhythm of life. L

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

I think it's a wonderful song," she said. But she was only shielding his pride, he knew. Obviously this was the first time she had ever heard the song, though she pretended to know it well. She can't penetrate to the feelings deep down in a song like this; or see through the murk of my manhood to the longing that sometimes makes me weep; fair enough: then as far as I'm concerned, she's just another body.

Yo era el único que no tenía tuberculosis. Fingía padecer una afección cardíaca. Vivíamos en unos años en los que era preciso estar en posesión de una de estas dos cosas: medallas o enfermedades.

The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.

One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?

Talking to him is rather like talking to a school play.

People are fakers--that's all we do. Can you think of anything you do that's not done for the precise reason of pretending to be something you're afraid you're not?

Pearl's shell?" "Because I want to be with a real friend," Echo said. "But . . . I'm not your friend. Not anymore," Shelly said slowly. Echo laughed. "I know better. You were only pretending to be mad so I would go to the party." Shelly's face turned red. "How did you find out? Did Kiki tell you?" "Don't blame Kiki," Echo said. "You are more important to me than any silly band.

Couples were always keen to return to the task of trying to destroy their lifelong partners while pretending to have their best interests at heart.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

What are you doing?" "I'm, uh, acting normal." "No you're not. You're acting like someone pretending to be normal. Stop pretending and start acting, but don't act like you're not pretending, that'll make it worse.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.