186 Quotes About Pretending

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments

When you pretend to do something . You over do it or you under do it, because you don't know where and when to stop. So you can't limit it.

People who claim they don't care what others think about them get restless when they know what others are thinking about them.

Growing up seemed to mean that the only kind of pretending that was still safe was pretending we could do without it.

That's the downside of growing up. There's a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don't know or aren't comfortable with our true selves.

You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed.

I don’t want him to ask me how I feel about it, so I smile even wider and try to convince him I’m perfectly fine.Because I am. Or I will be. Once it all sinks in.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.