Make Believe Quotes

140 quotes by 130 authors

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds
There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
With Epcot Center, the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse… — P.J. O'Rourke
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make… — Eric Bogosian
I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know… — Lloyd Bridges
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life — Judd Nelson
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man… — Dakota Fanning
You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you. — Burt Lancaster
There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing. — David Canary
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews… — Patrick Stewart
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to… — Stephen Leacock
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be… — Winston Churchill
Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving… — Fred Barnes
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. — Vince Vaughn
Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a… — Stanislaw Lem

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