Pretense

Famous quotes containing the word pretense:

“As we drew near to Oldtown I asked Polis if he was not glad to get home again; but there was no relenting to his wildness, and he said, “It makes no difference to me where I am.” Such is the Indian’s pretense always.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Their holders have always seemed to me like a woman who should undertake at a state fair to run a sewing machine, under pretense of advertising it, while she had never spent an hour in learning its use.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)