Pretending Quotes

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. (Oliver Herford)
I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. View quote
Albert Finney
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. View quote
Jim Henson
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. View quote
George Santayana
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one. View quote
Charlie Sheen
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead. View quote
John Burdett
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. View quote
John Fowles
Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any. View quote
Edith Wharton
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. (Oscar Wilde)
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. View quote
Northrop Frye
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Being is like pretending. View quote
Mira Sorvino
I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing. View quote
Umberto Eco
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. View quote
George Eliot
Sometimes a god comes,” Selver said. "He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde! (Anne Rice)
We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending, wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it. View quote
George Washington
They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep, and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness. View quote
Ben Hecht