Whenever a annoys or injures b on the pretense of saving or improving x, a is a scoundrel.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
