A Quote by Elbert Hubbard

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
American - Writer
June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

Archibald MacLeish

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.

Laozi

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson

What tinfoil?" he asked.

Maureen Johnson

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

Robert Benchley

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

John Podhoretz

Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak

Robbie Williams

I'm quite open to the fact that I might be a tinfoil-hat freak.

Robbie Williams

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.

Blaise Pascal

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.

Maureen Johnson

We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming.

John Fante

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