Top 100 Pretend Quotes
#1. Don't play," said Hermione at once.
"Say you're ill," said Ron.
"Pretend to break your leg," Hermione suggested.
"Really break your leg," said Ron.
J.K. Rowling
#2. Sometimes you meet a person and you just click
you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.
Alexandra Ardonetto
#3. One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams
#4. If you can pretend to ignore the fact that you've got a right hand, what else can you pretend to ignore? Can you have a negative heart, a hollow soul?
Muriel Barbery
#6. I had broken the most basic commandment of our culture: Thou shalt pretend there is nothing wrong.
Derrick Jensen
#7. We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.
Kevin McCarty
#8. Why did you find me? Why did you date my best friend? Why did you pretend to be my friend?
Stormy Smith
#9. The messages pile up,
The worry knocks at
my door, louder & louder.
More calls from the therapist.
Pills that should have been
taken lie scattered across the floor.
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.
I pretend I do not see.
Darshana Suresh
#10. I smell wet pavement, and pretend that this is all there is.
Veronica Roth
#11. I am not as strong as my words pretend to be. Not
as quiet as these caesuras promise. This heart is a patchwork quilt of people
that leave different shades of blue inside of me.
Shinji Moon
#12. As a little kid, I used to lock myself in my room and put on my Whitney Houston CD's and pretend to be her and try and hit every single note that she hit. I used to dream that one day that would be me.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#13. It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
L. Todd Rose
#14. If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#15. Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
Ayn Rand
#16. I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
Derek Jacobi
#17. Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.
Lauren Myracle
#18. When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.
Charles Spurgeon
#20. I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.
Kristen Wiig
#21. Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.
Mark Shields
#22. Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.
Lilly Singh
#23. He grimaced back, and for a moment it was a little easier to pretend we both believed there's be an "eventually" to look forward to.
Meagan Spooner
#24. Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.
Nic Sheff
#26. I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
Les Claypool
#27. In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.
Kola Boof
#28. It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
Isaac Marion
#29. You let every other guy have you. You give away pieces of yourself like they're candy." I went rigid trying to make sense of this different side of Bennett. He looked lost and miserable and desperate. "Maybe this is the only way. Maybe if I pretend to be like them.
Christina Lee
#30. Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.
Steven James
#31. Sometimes I wonder if I'm falling in love with her. Sometimes I wonder how long I can pretend I'm not.
Karina Halle
#32. Why didn't you say something sooner! I said He wasn't the only one disgusted. This is my first time on a horse. Really? Blaec said dryly, I couldn't tell. Oh just pretend its my son you're riding.
Sunny
#33. As a runner, you have to face the truth about yourself on a regular basis, and it makes you more honest. You can't pretend to be faster than you are. You can't pretend that you are better prepared than you are. You cannot pretend to be a runner, you actually have to run.
John Bingham
#35. Watching you pretend to hate the nickname is the best part of my day.
Sally Thorne
#36. I would think of it with affection because of its scenes of fragmentary beauty, because it brought men closer together through their perversity and fear, because it enabled us to pretend that death could be a tender experience, and because it breached the long silence.
Don DeLillo
#37. I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
#38. You'll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
Vironika Tugaleva
#39. If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else?
C. JoyBell C.
#40. Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's one thing to call it just, but to pretend it's 'brave' is Orwellian in the extreme.
Glenn Greenwald
#41. The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Gordon W. Allport
#42. Accents are very tangible, blessedly, and if you have to do one, it's a way of getting into character. I can read it through a few times and pretend I know what I'm doing!
Emily Mortimer
#43. Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own
one of the heart, the other of the mind.
Jean De La Bruyere
#44. Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.
Tom Baker
#45. You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.
Ezra Koenig
#46. O, the things we kill for our dreams, forgetting all the while we shall wake up to find them naught but dust and ash!
What fools we are to pretend that when we walk to war, we do not bring our loved ones with us.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#47. Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
Steven Tyler
#48. Pretend you still believe I'm that superhero
Jill Shalvis
#49. To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
Trevor McDonald
#50. Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
#51. I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy
#52. If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him
Shannon Stacey
#53. I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
Randy Bachman
#54. Being born as an Indigo, the most difficult mission is to be strong enough to retain your true "self" while living in human stereotype society. Having to pretend, to act "the same as others," can only make you so deeply unhappy and hurt - feeling as though your "wings" have been cut off.
Sahara Sanders
#55. When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.
Lemony Snicket
#56. memorizing history in school, you should picture yourself in the Battle of Hastings and pretend to lose your legs. You won't forget it then. Parietal
Ruby Wax
#57. To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#58. As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.
Robbie Keane
#59. Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#60. fake it 'til you make it. If you don't feel good, pretend you do because eventually you will. It hasn't worked yet, but I'm still holding out hope.
Courtney Cole
#61. The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.
LeCrae
#62. When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.
Dean Norris
#63. Let's pretend for just one moment that could actually happen. You close your eyes and I'll close mine and let's dream the same dream across the Atlantic, lighting up the darkness between us. Can you see it, Stu? Can you see us up there, shining in all the black?
Annabel Pitcher
#64. Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.
Robert Breault
#65. You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.
Caroline Myss
#66. But what was it Haymitch said when I asked if he had told Peeta the situation? That he had to pretend to be desperately in love?
Don't have to. He's already there.
Suzanne Collins
#67. Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters.
Peter Jennings
#68. I pretend he doesn't exist, and he does the same with me.
Ida Lokas
#69. I don't have a girlfriend but sometimes I like to pretend I do. I just stand in my apartment screaming No, that's not what I said!
Dave Attell
#70. If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend it never happened. No one will blame me if I choose to shove these memories into the back of my mind.
Leigh Hershkovich
#71. Are we gonna talk about it, or are we gonna pretend nothing's wrong?
Jodi Picoult
#72. What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.
Andy Serkis
#73. We live through the belief of children ... Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
#74. I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.
Eric Maskin
#75. The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.
Tammy Bruce
#76. You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andy Grove
#77. Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard ... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.
E. O. Wilson
#78. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
Ellen Wittlinger
#79. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#80. This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of Mimmy and my dad was not for me. It was for her. It was for them. I was so sick with understanding that I was practically yelling at her.
Joshilyn Jackson
#81. The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?
Bill Maher
#82. If you wish to transform, pretend this day until it is so.
T.F. Hodge
#83. It's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
E. E. Cummings
#84. You can't hide what you are. We can pretend a lot, but our inside is reflected through some aspect of our character, and that inside is either good or bad.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#85. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#86. The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#87. Well, we'll have to agree to disagree." I hated that phrase. It was code for, "I know you're too obtuse to ever see how I right I am, so to get any satisfaction out of this discussion, I'm going to pretend to be more reasonable than you. Oh, and get the last word in.
Jess Lourey
#88. I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
Melissa McCarthy
#89. That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.
Sarra Manning
#90. What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach.' He threw her wrists aside like seeds towards the stony floor. 'Never pretend I haven't shown my love.
Graham Greene
#91. Poor, chubby Annette Kelper, who desperately tries to pretend that nobody notices the fact that she's balding on top of her head. That's right. Look closely - balding just like a man. Perhaps Randy feels sorry for chrome-dome Annette.
David Sedaris
#92. When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
James Patterson
#93. I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
Shakira
#94. I've only known you a couple of days. That's not long at all. I don't know you well enough to pretend like I know you and your problems. But I want to know you. I want to know your problems. That is ... if you want to know me.
Nicole Williams
#95. I didn't want someone who would have to force himself to love me or for me to pretend that I loved him back. I had always hoped that love would be mutually instinctual and natural- as easy as breathing
Tina Reber
#96. Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.
Chris Guillebeau
#97. I left a church of kind, generous people because I couldn't pretend to believe things I didn't believe anymore, because I knew that no matter how hard I tried, I could never be the stick-figured woman in the Vote Yes On One sign standing guard in front of the doors. I didn't want to be.
Rachel Held Evans
#98. I am not perfect and I don't pretend to be. My brand is about dealing with life after it happens and not sugar coating the fact that I'm a human who makes mistakes.
Isha Johnson
#99. It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.
Rom Amor
#100. To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more.
Anthony M. Esolen
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