Pretend Quotes - page 2

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. View quote
John le Carré
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. View quote
Nora Ephron
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well. View quote
Lu Xun
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive. View quote
John Osborne
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. View quote
David Hume
I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do. (Johnny Depp)
How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see. View quote
Bob Dylan
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. View quote
Harold Pinter
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men - they are far superior and always have been. View quote
William Golding
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. View quote
Octavio Paz
Gold is cold, diamonds are dead, a limousine is a car, don't pretend, feel what's real... View quote
Charlize Theron
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. View quote
Socrates
I don't understand what's going on, but i'll just pretend that I do. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. View quote
Diane Setterfield
But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't? (Jon Ronson)
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing. View quote
Jesse Helms
I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this. View quote
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action. View quote
Damon Hill