#pretence

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. ↗

— James Payn

#elsewhere #england #literary #method #more

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#find #fire #malice #mark #pretence

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cat #church #city-of-lost-souls #humor #pretence

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. ↗

— Tony Horwitz

#intimacy #pretence #shelby-foote #friendship

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#alive #dragon #keeping #love #pretence

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#character #foundation #impossible #pretence #saps

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences. ↗

— Joe Wilson

#clearly #disaster #false #iraq #out

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#care #government #happy #labours #must