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

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

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
Wellington Mara

The economic and political roots of the conflicts are too strong for us to pretend to create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
Alva Myrdal

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
Freya Stark

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

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
Kirsten Dunst

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Clarence Darrow

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
Tammy Bruce

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
David Herbert Lawrence

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.
John le Carre

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
Jamie Lee Curtis

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Harold Pinter

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Harriet Martineau