Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
I have a lot of friends who I really feel like I can kick back with and let all pretense go and be very comfortable with.
Without community, there is no liberation. . . but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.
And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just. . . wonder.
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.
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!
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and pretense, and indifferent to the world.
There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school.
