Pretend Quotes
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
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You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.
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In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
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You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!
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We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is "soap-on-a-rope."
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Nobody has the right to act on their own in the name of the United Nations and even less to pretend to be the judge of the entire world
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
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I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.
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It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.
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We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.
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And someone turns out the lights in the library, as if being in the dark will make them invisible, but the noise reaches into the house, into the room, into their lungs. Someone is being beaten in the street below. What are they going to do? How long can you pretend this is not happening?
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
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I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.
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I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.
