Quotations
Quotes:
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
View quotes by Jacques Derrida
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
View quotes by Doris Lessing
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
View quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
View quotes by Sacha Guitry
"A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there."
View quotes by Darryl Hannah
'Nicole - Knickers, as I call her. I would swear, burp and fart in front of her. I'd try and embarrass her and she would pretend to be shocked. I always played up on that. It was a real elder sister-younger brother relationship.'
- on his and Nicole's relationship on Moulin Rouge
View quotes by Ewan McGregor
"Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted."
View quotes by Denise Van Outen
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 (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
View quotes by David Hume
Put a drop of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it
View quotes by Bill Bailey
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
View quotes by Moliere
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
View quotes by Clarence Darrow
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
View quotes by Bette Davis
I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
View quotes by Elizabeth Taylor
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
View quotes by Sun Tzu
'Ah, I know what the important things are in life. I know that, just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I know those things. Simple things.
View quotes by Colin Farrell
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
View quotes by Geena Davis
I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
View quotes by Alec Guinness
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
View quotes by Edgar Watson Howe
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
View quotes by Fran Lebowitz
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