186 Quotes About Pretending

Humility is the greatest shaper of souls and crafter of character, for it wipes away all the grandiose things that we spend so much of our lives pretending to be, so that we can spend all of our lives being the exceptional person that we were actually created to be.

We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Les faux savants sont comme tes amis qui chantent avec les chansons anglaises ; de loin, tu penses qu'ils connaissent les paroles par cœur, mais une fois la chanson s'arrête, tu te rends compte qu'ils ne savent rien!

I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.

His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain faceless.Anonymous.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.