Pretence

Famous quotes containing the word pretence:

““What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening? that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave,
Should give to my friend
A pretence of wit.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)