Words matter. These are the best Pretence Quotes from famous people such as Zebulon Pike, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Keeley Hazell, Susie Dent, Sarita Choudhury, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’ve made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.
The abuse of power in the film and television industry is a tale as old as time. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I have attended professional meetings with someone in a more powerful position than myself under the pretence of work.
The word ‘eavesdropper’ originally referred to people who, under the pretence of taking in some fresh air, would stand under the ‘eavesdrip’ of their house – from which the collected raindrops would fall – in the hopes of catching any juicy tid-bits of information that might come their way from their neighbour’s property.
See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don’t wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
The rise of Donald Trump established a new ground zero for liberal media, requiring no pretence of balance – better yet, with a kind of political brain haemorrhage, everybody seemed to have lost the ability to be balanced.
I’ve got no pretence that I want to do ‘Hamlet’ or anything, I know my limitations.
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.
I don’t think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I thought it must be lovely to have an Oscar. But the more involved you are in this business, the more that pretence disappears, and you really get to see what you love about it, and what I love is working.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
Where ‘Paranormal Activity’ really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy – how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.
I want to remove the curtain of pretence from all of my characters.
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.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics – it is all too often about personalities and emotion – but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
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.
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.
