Pretense Quotes - Page 11

• This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Character, Perfect, Agitation

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• 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

  Nice, Sleep, Guy

  "Max Irons Assumes His Throne". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Ease

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Government, Hands

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.107, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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