Pretends Quotes
107 quotes by 97 authors
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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to…
— Sarah Fielding
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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians.
— Moshe Katsav
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Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that…
— Richard Rosen
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I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.
— David Wain
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The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.
— Fernando Pessoa
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A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it;…
— Paul Klee
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I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
— Arthur Hailey
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
— Criss Jami
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Virgil is so exact in every word, that none can be changed but for a worse; nor any one removed from its place, but the…
— John Dryden
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because…
— William Godwin
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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
— Henry James
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The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a…
— Jimmy Johnson
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
— Jean Kerr
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A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
— Jenifer Lewis
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Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
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