Top 41 Quotes About Feigning
#1. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
William Shakespeare
#2. Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory.
J.K. Rowling
#3. She said you were an awesome lay, I said, feigning interest in the gush of water that spilled out from the gutter by the lockers. My face would betray me if he saw it.
Well, that's true, Noah said.
Michelle Hodkin
#4. Catherine wished to discover whether her son were really ill or
feigning. But he, worthy son of such a mother, played his part
to perfection. She had wept, he had a fever.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one's behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three "f's": feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important "c": contrivance.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#8. The Lord probably didn't appreciate her feigning nearsightedness in order to repeatedly lean into her husband when she should've been concentrating on the meaning behind the hymn she was singing.
Karen Witemeyer
#9. People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.
Rob Payne
#10. I wondered at first whether she might not be feigning timidity out of courtesy to a man of an older generation, but a cold gin moisture came out on her beautiful face and she appeared to be appealing to me do something.
Saul Bellow
#11. The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
Baruch Spinoza
#12. I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.
Jill Soloway
#13. No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know.
Augustine Of Hippo
#14. Daddy," said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, "you are a poo-poo head!"
Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. "John," he said, "no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.
Christopher Andersen
#16. Please," I murmur, surprised by how much it sounds like I'm begging. "Please what?" he murmurs, feigning coyness. "Fuck me." The low growl in his throat proves he liked my crude, blunt answer. The panties slide down my legs, leaving a damp trail from my inner thigh
C.M. Owens
#17. Why don't you ever call me my prince?" Galen says, feigning insult.
"Shut up, my prince. There, is that better?
Anna Banks
#18. Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Barbara Kingsolver
#19. We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.
C.S. Lewis
#20. You mean you don't wear thongs?" I ask, feigning exasperation. "Hell no! I'd be digging that thing out of my ass all night long.
K.L. Grayson
#21. There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.
Tony Horwitz
#22. Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent.
George Eliot
#23. The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony De Mello
#24. Lowering my gaze , I walked to my seat, settling in next to Kriss.
"Seriously America?" she whispered.
I tilted my head in her direction. "I'm sorry?" I replied, feigning confusion.
She put her silverware down, and we stared at each other. "You look trashy."
"Well, you look jealous.
Kiera Cass
#25. The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.
Sheila Walsh
#26. Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?"
"You've never been interested in me before."
"You've never been interesting before."
-Cassandra and Paige
Kelley Armstrong
#27. You make it sound almost like a hostage situation," I tease. "It's love, darling," he says and then adds, feigning an evil grin, "It takes everyone hostage.
E.K. Blair
#28. I don't date officers. Or men who jump out of helicopters for a living."
"Technically, we rappel."
She shrugged, feigning indifference. "Same thing, really.
Loribelle Hunt
#29. He had learnt how to feign pleasure in a state of pain; how to feign a rosy picture if there was a gloomy affair; how to feign profits when there were losses. And the art of feigning benefited him in his life, at least in business...
Girdhar Joshi
#31. Oh my," she said, feigning innocence. She fanned a hand in front of her face. "Revenge is so sweet!
Margaret Taylor
#32. You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Frank Herbert
#33. Even Rudy stood completely erect, feigning nonchalance, tensing himself against the tension.
Markus Zusak
#34. Addie," Laila says, feigning concern and jumping down next to me. "Did you get hurt? What happened?
Kasie West
#35. A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#36. I glanced at Robert, who looked at Rose, who looked back at Robert. Well, odd one out, then. Maybe he would propose if I disappeared.
"Oh look! Upholstery," I declared, feigning fascination with a side chair in the corner of the room.
Tarun Shanker
#37. Life is really a travesty of will: it is a parade of learning how to lose people and improve at feigning indifference.
I suspect I shall always fail at this, and fail miserably. I do not know whether that is winning at life or failing at happiness.
Michelle Franklin
#38. How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Walter Gropius
#39. It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.
Mallory Ortberg
#40. Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.
Robert Galbraith
#41. Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be
Sholto
Laurell K. Hamilton
