“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.”
Clarence Darrow
“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.”
C.S. Lewis
“Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.”
Chanakya
“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”
“I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuck for a heart. you people are not going to make me feel anything. you are not going to get to me.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I'm rather enjoying the whole process of reinvention, ... To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.”
Hugh Laurie
“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
