Pretend Quotes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. (Kurt Vonnegut)
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. View quote
Sacha Guitry
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. View quote
Socrates
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. View quote
Sun Tzu
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. View quote
Clarence Darrow
The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one. View quote
Margaret Atwood
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do. View quote
Douglas Coupland
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. (Winston Churchill)
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. View quote
Tom Stoppard
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. View quote
Douglas Coupland
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going. View quote
Christopher Morley
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. View quote
Richard Price
The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men. View quote
Alva Myrdal
You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world... View quote
Jean Rhys
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. (Germaine Greer)
The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. View quote
Jamie Lee Curtis
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. View quote
Maria Callas
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. View quote
Jacques Derrida
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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