Quotes with pretense

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• 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
  African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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• Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

  Publilius Syrus
  Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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• 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
  Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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• Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

  Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  Friedrich von Schlegel
  German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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• Secrets find a way out in sleep... It is the place where there is no pretense.

  Bell Hooks
  American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristics
• implications
• specifically
• differences
• prudishness
• sentimental

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