Quotes by Pretense People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. Allen Drury pretense live-by people Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none. Benjamin Cardozo pretense fraud By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study! Charles Dickens pretense study men Piety is the tinfoil of pretense. Elbert Hubbard pretense piety Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense. Ethan Hawke pretense heart giving pretense is the oil that lubricates society. Mary Roberts Rinehart pretense oil We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. Megan Hart pretense understood changed There are pretenses which are very sincere, and marriage is their school. Miguel de Unamuno pretense sincere school He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense. Publilius Syrus pretense mischief mind Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing. Stella Benson posing pretense sometimes I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not. Val Kilmer pretense normal Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. Victoria Moran pretense where-you-are home (Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. Wendy Doniger palin pretense hypocrisy Style equals pretense. Enrico Colantoni equals pretense style