Pretends Quotes

107 quotes by 97 authors

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
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
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
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
I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work. — David Wain
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
The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels. — Fernando Pessoa
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
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself. — Arthur Hailey
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
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
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
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
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
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. — Germaine Greer
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. — Henry James
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
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. — Jenifer Lewis
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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