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Quotes About Pretenders

There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails.
~ Whitney Tilson
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
~ Moliere
The one thing I have digested in life, is to give up showing love to Pretenders who broadcast like they are the glorified souls, but really feeding the world hate as they show people their wonderful vibes. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
~ Walter Lippmann
Pretenders are just pretenders. They cannot be the real ones. They waste their own time and harm themselves. They stand their entire life empty-handed and without any vision.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I realize no matter how smart you are, you'll end up trusting people and get hurt. This world is full of pretenders and you'll never know.
~ Manasa Rao
Many pretenders to wisdom say that this is all trick and make-believe and nothing more, that there is no such thing as paleface cemeteries, doughy-nosed and gummy-eyed, and never was. Well, perhaps it was just another empty invention – there are certainly fables enough in this world. And yet, even if the story isn't true, it does have a grain of sense and instruction to it, and it's entertaining as well, so it's worth the telling.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
~ Jack Butler Yeats
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
~ Brennan Manning
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
~ Brennan Manning
Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.
~ Kenneth O. Gangel
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
~ Denis Leary
never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs
~ Nizar Qabbani
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
~ Walter Lippmann
False gods!" she cried, her blue eyes blazing as she stared at the Red King and the Lords of Outer Night. "Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!
~ Jim Butcher
And do you not also think, as I do, that the harsh feeling which the many entertain towards philosophy originates in the pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always abusing them, and finding fault with them, who make persons instead of things the theme of their conversation? and nothing can be more unbecoming in philosophers than this.
~ Plato
It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
~ Luis Gutierrez
For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are. [And here it is clear that God is speaking, because He judges their hearts.] 1 And this word aptly and clearly expresses the nature of hypocrisy, which is a righteous performance in the eyes of men on earth, but is evil in the heart. Such are all heretics, all pretenders who create an appearance in public to which their heart does not correspond.
~ Martin Luther
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
~ Moliere
he wore his wealth with the comfortable indifference of someone born into it. New-made nobles, pretenders, and rich merchants simply don't carry themselves the same way. Alveron
~ Patrick Rothfuss