Pretend Quotes

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People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach — Marguerite de Navarre
The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world is too wide for the… — Charles Spurgeon
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. — Sun Tzu
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. — Sacha Guitry
Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to… — Evangeline Lilly
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. — Sun Tzu
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are far away; when… — Sun Tzu
If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental,… — Sun Tzu
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have… — George Bernard Shaw
Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to… — Betty Friedan
I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the… — Cherie Piper
In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why… — Rumi
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. — Renata Adler
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our… — Caitlin Moran
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. — William James
It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. — Robert Breault

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