Pretenses Quotes

War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

We gave them a lot of money under false pretenses. It's going to remain an issue until they give that money back.

The use of false pretenses to retrieve confidential customer account information not only victimizes those consumers whose privacy is violated, but also compromises the security of financial institutions that strive to increase customer convenience by making such information more easily accessible.

This appointment shows the Planned Parenthood board of directors has abandoned all pretenses that PPFA is a health care organization.