#pretend

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

— Winston Churchill

#am #brilliant #browns #cannot #colours

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like. ↗

— John Cusack

#affair #chemistry #consummate #get #good

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#any #glamorous #having #me #might

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ↗

— John Fowles

#critical #duty #largely #pretending #trivial

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

— John Gay

#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

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

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ↗

— Jim McDermott

#agent #later #no problem #orange #pentagon

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. ↗

— Claude Monet

#everyone #love #necessary #pretends #simply

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

— Claude Monet

#discuss #love #necessary #people #pretend