Pretended Quotes
183 Pretended quotes by 161 unique authors
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The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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I've never pretended to be a supermodel.
— Martine McCutcheon
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I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but…
— Maureen McCormick
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew…
— Rachel McAdams
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I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes.…
— Rebecca De Mornay
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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
— Jayma Mays
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
— I F Stone
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There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's…
— Christian Bale
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Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really…
— Andy Dick
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I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and…
— Sherman Hemsley
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I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be…
— Sophie Thompson
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Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.
— Robert Breault
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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of…
— Maria Mitchell
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From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were…
— Henry Adams
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Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
— William Hazlitt
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I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
— Cary Grant
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I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and…
— Matt Groening
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
— Jacques Derrida
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
— Naomie Harris
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My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves…
— Josh Hartnett
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring…
— Jane Jacobs
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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of…
— Florence King
Who Wrote These Pretended Quotes
161 authors contributed a total of 183 Pretended Quotes, led by these top contributors: