Quotes about Pretending
She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
— Lewis Carroll
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
— CS Lewis
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm just very good at pretending.
— Rita Ora
Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.
— Miranda Otto
The crowd always has a stake in pretending that the "abnormal" (in this case, being blind and begging) is "normal," for such a recharacterization of the abnormal as normal precludes some from full socioeconomic, political functioning.
— Walter Brueggemann
God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.
— John Donne