Pretended Quotes

• The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

  

  Plato
  • Justice
  • Injustice
  • Pretended

• I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Person
  • Wanted
  • Pretended

• People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Meaning
  • Judgments

• Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Light
  • Working
  • Pretended

• Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Security
  • Blame
  • Sainthood

• It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Wanted
  • Dangerous
  • Logic

• The moralists of Europe have pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Horror
  • Pretended
  • Moralists

• If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Politics
  • Rules
  • Kings

• Our King Jesus is accused of treachery; it is said of him by the Muslims that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Jesus
  • Muslims
  • Treachery

• I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Movie
  • Walked
  • Amazingly

• Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

  

  Deborah Pryce
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Grandfather

• As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Life
  • Son
  • Questions

• The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Art
  • Sports
  • Pretended

• This was the west and we were westerners, and no bureaucrat in Washington was going to regulate what our companies did in our state. So, we gulped down hot smog and pretended like we enjoyed it because we were too fucking stupid to look out for our own best interests.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Stupid
  • Interests
  • Enjoyed

• And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Smiled
  • Pretended
  • Trigger

• Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Imagine
  • Nothing
  • Taunts

• I pretended to be interested in their secret undertaking, but in fact I was very sorry about it. Although the two siblings had involved me by choosing me as their confidant, it was still an experience that I could enter only as witness: on that path Lila would do great things by herself, I was excluded. But above all, how, after our intense conversations about love and poetry, could she walk me to the door, as she was doing, far more absorbed in the atmosphere of excitement around a shoe?...What did I care about shoes. I still had, in my mind's eye, the most secret stages of that affair of violated trust, passion, poetry that became a book, and it was as if she and I had read a novel together, as if we had seen, there in the back of the shop and not in the parish hall on Sunday, a dramatic film.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Experience
  • Film
  • Secret

• Was it possible that I—short, too full-figured, wearing glasses, I diligent but not intelligent, I who pretended to be cultured, informed, when I wasn’t—could have believed that he would like me even just for the length of a vacation?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Intelligent
  • Vacation
  • Glasses