"The truest poetry is the most feigning." — William Shakespeare

More Feigning Quotes

This quote is filed under Feigning Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual… — Vaclav Havel
• Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so… — Barbara Kingsolver
• There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. — Tony Horwitz
• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human… — Frank Herbert
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because… — William Shakespeare
• A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about. — C.S. Lewis
• Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. — William Shakespeare
• The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects… — Isaac Newton
• Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto — Laurell K. Hamilton
• Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. — William Shakespeare
• Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They… — John Flanagan

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