#pretend

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#fear #more #often #pretend #really

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#beneath #childish #doubting #effectiveness #gag

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#arrogant #beings #form #galaxy #human

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

— I. F. Stone

#burlesque #difference #exposure #former #never

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#elements #i #just #music #pretend

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

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#doing #fabulous #know #looks #pretends

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#disappointed #foolish #fully #leave #passion

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance. ↗

— David Mamet

#conservative #gay #get #greater #liberal