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The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
She's also the kind of person who pretends to ask a question just to show off what she already knows.
— Becky Albertalli
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
— Albert Camus
Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....
Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to. — Stanislaw Lem
You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.
— Laura Amy Schlitz
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
— Nicholas Meyer
Why is free will wasted on a creature who has infinite choices but pretends there are only one or two?
— Steve Toltz
Everything is nothing that pretends to be.
— Jonathan Simard
However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.
— Rudyard Kipling
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
— George Bernard Shaw
An asshole who sometimes pretends to be nice totally has the ability to suck you back in, making you think that you had him all wrong.
— Lauren Barnholdt
The way everyone pretends to be on the same wavelength without questioning or talking about things - it doesn't get anyone anywhere.
— Haruki Murakami
Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.
— Mindy Kaling
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory
— Yuval Noah Harari
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
— Harley King
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
— Alistair Cooke
Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts - it's able to endure temptations - because it faces [them], not because it pretends [they're] not there.
— Michael S. Horton
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
— Francis Bacon
One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
— Solomon
Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.
— William Klein
Children are very wiseintuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends. — V.C. Andrews
Every sport pretends to be literature. . .
— Alistair Cooke
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
— Patricia Wentworth
In the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one.
— Alex Flinn
In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political especially that which pretends not to be. — Edward Abbey
Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi — Marcus Valerius Martialis
Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
— Alex Flinn
The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.
— Fernando Pessoa
He behaves as if he had no dead children. The real Leandro never comes here. He only pretends.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial - but knows that it isn't. 3.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don't.
— Beth Revis
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
— Robert Breault
Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field...
— Assegid Habtewold
People who pretends to be your friends when they're so not
— Tessa Intanya
Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
— Michael Hogan
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
— H.L. Mencken
It's better that your queen pretends to love you, because if she truly did, she would only love a lie.
— Jennifer A. Nielsen
When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.
— Sun Tzu
The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't. No matter what anyone pretends.
— Michelle Hodkin
Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.
— Harlan Ellison
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
— Eckhart Tolle
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
— William Blake
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
— Germaine Greer
Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.
— Joe Abercrombie
I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.
— Kristina Schroder
I never liked the news; it pretends to be all different, every day, when in fact it is all the same.
— Adam Roberts
When one plays a part for a long enough time, he begins to convince himself that he is the character he pretends to be,
— Joyce Swann
The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE:
— David Foster Wallace
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose
— Eckhart Tolle
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
But Sunday, Sunday knows she's the end. But she closes her eyes, and she pretends with all the strength in her tiny heart that really, she's the dawn.
— Pleasefindthis
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
— William Blake
The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.
— Jimmy Johnson
What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.
— Audre Lorde
There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.
— Elisabeth Elliot
No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.
— Auliq Ice
I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.
— Joe Budden
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.
— Henry David Thoreau
Is it not obvious that science only pretends to explain the cosmos on its fundamental level?
— Robert Lanza
I have been extraordinarily lucky. Anyone who pretends that some kind of luck isn't involved in his success is deluding himself.
— Arthur Hailey
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
— Mason Cooley
I serve no one who pretends to be a God!
— Angel S. Broady
