Pretext Quotes

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
― Tom Carson

“There are only do and don’t; can or can’t is just an excuse.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner, or the man to whom she was the pretext. Antony could not win a war without her. Octavian could not wage one.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life