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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.


Aleister Crowley


#enormous #evil #exist #makes #menacing

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.


Ron Fournier


#aftermath #because #bush #connected #false

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.


John Tillotson


#crafty #danger #dark #person #pretenses

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.


Charles Churchill


#copy #fame #faults #forfeits #pretense

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.


William Shakespeare


#beauty #falsehood #ornament #pretense #beauty

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.


Jim Morrison


#pretense #self-esteem #self-image #wisdom #love

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.


Arianna Huffington


#attitudes #between #characteristics #differences #disastrous

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.


Janos Kadar


#communist #deeds #every #example #foundations

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!


Edith Wharton


#family #friends #insincerity #kindness #loneliness

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#cakes #humor #modesty #pretense #tea-parties






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