Pretend Quotes

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

Fake, Water, Died

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

Sorry, Cannot, Poor

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.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Stupidity

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

Live, Greatest, Honor

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

Arrogance, Encourage

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Ron Paul

Life, Work, Government

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.
Johnny Depp

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
Chanakya

Snake, Poisonous, Venomous

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.
Hillary Clinton

Liars, Tired, American

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
Nelson Mandela

Brave, Whole, Beat

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Doug Coupland

Care, Person, Another

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama

Cannot, President, Suddenly

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Passion, Leave, Foolish

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Jung

Truth, Understand, Judgement

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle

Great, Understand, Universe

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
Earl Nightingale

Attitude, Beautiful, Happy

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
Andre Agassi

Good, Find, Fighting

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife.
Elizabeth Taylor

Ordinary, Housewife

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy

Woman, Ignore, Big

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through, Ridiculous

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts

Love, Actually, Command

Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
Andy Rooney

Smart, Frustrated, Dumb

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Calvin Klein

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.
Clarence Darrow

Men, Insult, Rather

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.
Bertrand Russell

Start, Questions, Achieve

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow

Men, Sure, Ignorant

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.
Fran Lebowitz

Hope, Around, Moral

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.
Mary Kay Ash

Life, Important, Single

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan Watts

Try, Exists, Altogether

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