Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old pretending quotes, pretending sayings, and pretending proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying you're moral is not the same as acting morally.Alan Dershowitz
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Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.Serj Tankian
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Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.Oscar Wilde
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The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.Charlie Sheen
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.John Fowles
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.American Indian Proverb, Navajo
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.Meryl Streep
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.Anais Nin
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Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't. Rick Warren
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.Booth Tarkington
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.Julian Barnes
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It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.Adam Levine
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The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. Vernon Howard
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You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now. Caryl Churchill
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Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in. Gaspar Noe
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There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual deceptions don’t lead anywhere.Rajneesh Sharma
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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. Samuel R. Delany
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Nobody really knows what they're doing. Some are just better at pretending like they do.Kumail Najiani
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Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.Edith Warthon
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There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.Robert Henri
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You don't get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don't know.Sam Harris
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Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.Louis Lowry
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You gain power by pretending to be weak.Chuck Palahniuk
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Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake. Viswanathan Anand
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We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't. Susan Meissner
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Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay. Ron McLarty
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I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it. George Eliot
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.Alan Watts