Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted.
Denise Van Outen

Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
John Ritter

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

My father never felt the need to wrap himself in anybody's mantle. He never felt the need to pretend to be anybody else. This is their administration. This is their war. If they can't stand on their own two feet, well, they're no Ronald Reagans, that's for sure.
Ron Reagan

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

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

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton Chekhov

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

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

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Claude Monet

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
Bette Davis

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

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

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.
George P. Baker

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.
David Hume

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker

Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
Peter Jennings

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron