A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
Charles Inglis

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.
Andy Dick

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me.
Arthur Bremer

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.
Florence King

Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
Ida Lupino

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
Maria Mitchell

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
I. F. Stone

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
Adam Sedgwick

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
John Hawkins

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Jacques Derrida