Top Pretence Quotes
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Henry Ellis
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell 
58% of people like this quote
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Henry Ellis
55% of people like this quote
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
James Russell Lowell
53% of people like this quote
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell
52% of people like this quote
In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
James Payn
52% of people like this quote
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Charles Simmons
49% of people like this quote
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
Zebulon Pike
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In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn
46% of people like this quote
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