Feigned Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be… — Joseph Brodsky
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. — Gayle Forman
He couldn't say it. He couldn't tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If… — CJ Roberts
Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of… — Jorge Luis Borges
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush. — Lord Byron
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy,… — Sarah Orne Jewett
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at… — Warren St. John
Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. — Barbara Kingsolver
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous… — Vladimir Nabokov
The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.… — Milan Kundera
It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.â€ Why, Gillian, itâ€™s that very ability that makes us… — Victoria Alexander
You cheated!â€ He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. â€œI beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for… — Sarah MacLean
Oh, man," Xavier groaned. "See what you've done--now I'm stressing." "You can't! You're the stable one!" Xavier laughed and I realized his distress had been… — Alexandra Adornetto
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak… — Osamu Dazai
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions — Jonathan Edwards
...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were… — Desiderius Erasmus
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but… — Roger Ascham

Who Wrote These Feigned Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 21 Feigned Quotes as follows: