Quotes about Pretense

When we drift from a deep, intimate companionship with God, we become negative, critical, judgmental and recalcitrant. We resist the repeated overtures of God's love. Neutrality and detached aloofness eventually result. We become respectably unresponsive. It happens to all of us at times. The telltale signs are equivocation, vacillation and pretense.

There is a great difference between being born wise and only looking it.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

The progressive pretense is that these people, who have created virtually nothing, are actually the real creators of the nation's wealth.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.