No Pretense Quotes

#1. In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete.

Anne Perry

#2. The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

Lisette Model

#3. In fact, when I met Kit Harington first, he was pretty much feeling how I'm feeling today - at a photo shoot and you've had no sleep. He was just a really nice, English, down-to-earth guy. No pretense, nothing.

Max Irons

#4. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be; because he shows you, by his manner, that he thinks it mere condescension in him; and that his goodness alone bestows upon you what you have no pretense to claim.

Lord Chesterfield

#5. I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

Jimmy Wayne

#6. No pretense stop wasting my time. A virtuous woman is really hard to find.

Buju Banton

#7. Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Alexander Pope

#8. Totally self-reliant, he is a master negotiator. He believes no one, expects the worst of people, distrusts his allies and adversaries alike and makes no pretense at intimacy.

Mark Stevens

#9. I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.

Thomas R. Marshall

#10. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Zig Ziglar

#11. Secrets find a way out in sleep ... It is the place where there is no pretense.

Bell Hooks

#12. His wife is washed up against him, clinging lifelessly to his arm like seaweed, with no pretense of listening to the priest's small talk.

Paul Murray

#13. No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Randy Alcorn

#14. Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Stephen Schwartz

#15. The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

David Pajo

#16. I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.

Dominick Dunne

#17. Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.

Katherine Reay

#18. All under the pretense of military application."
He pouts. "No pretense about it. Remember, the Internet was a military application. And now look at how it's changed our culture.

Chuck Wendig

#19. Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind.

Edward Abbey

#20. There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Rumi

#21. What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Richard Matheson

#22. Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

Thomas A. Edison

#23. I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

Jasmine Ann Cooray

#24. No, she lies. Because she's polite enough to know that if someone gives you a book, you owe that person the pretense that you haven't read it.

Fredrik Backman

#25. Part of the doctrinal system in the United States is the pretense that we're all a happy family, there are no class divisions, and everybody is working together in harmony. But that's radically false.

Noam Chomsky

#26. One of the worst symptoms of HIV is secrecy...if you get HIV? You get secretive. Insular. Paranoid. Your life becomes a giant pretense so no one finds out you have this disease. You don't know what people will do for you because you are too afraid to tell them.

Regan Hofmann

#27. War does not only kill soldiers and warriors. It also kills rules and moral values. No! Those cannot be killed. War kills the pretense at rules and moral values. It also kills the pretense of being human beings...

Sweety Shinde

#28. Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

Virginia Woolf

#29. Not receiving a request through the entitled route is no excuse for not serving it.

Pawan Mishra

#30. No ... " said Professor Quirrell. "That is not why I am here. You have made no effort to hide your dislike for me, Miss Granger. I thank you for that lack of pretense, for I much prefer true hate to false love.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#31. If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#32. 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

#33. If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

William Adams

#34. 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.

A.W. Tozer

#35. Harder still was the pretense her studies demanded: the need to dissemble, to parrot her professors' orthodoxies, to feign interest in theories that were of no use to her.

John Wray

#36. He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could ever love me?
I don't think so.
Because I'm not good enough.
It's not like that.
Because I'm not smart.
No.
Because you couldn't love me.
Because I couldn't love you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

Tim O'Brien

#38. We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.

Megan Hart

#39. The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After a while, you get used to it. It becomes pretense no longer.

Carl Sagan

#40. No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

Seneca The Younger

#41. I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under no false pretense that I'm a stunner, so if somebody comes up and says something about my physical appearance, it's okay.

Timothy Simons

#42. Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

Mikhail Bakunin

#43. A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Maya Angelou

#44. Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

Victoria Moran