Pretended Quotes

183 Pretended quotes by 161 unique authors

What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did… — Bernard Lazare
I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. — Arthur Bremer
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports. — Lord Byron
I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed.… — Jack Handey
Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists. — Fulton J. Sheen
[T]he 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… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his… — Adam Sedgwick
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals, and then spread… — Frederick The Great
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has… — Gustave Flaubert
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… — Albert Camus
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against… — James Madison
In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting… — George Washington
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me. — Steven Tyler
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. — Charles Inglis
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere… — Bernadette Devlin
Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering… — Daniel J. Boorstin
What does it mean to know and experience my own â€œnothingness?â€ It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults… — Thomas Merton
I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all… — Willie Nelson
To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might… — J C Ryle
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended. — Thomas Jefferson

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