Pretend Quotes

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

I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like!

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?

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.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

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

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

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.

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

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

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.

I'm a car singer, in fact sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I'll just drive him around and start singin'.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

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

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

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.