#pretend

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

#abyss #because #best #children #concerned

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. ↗

— Maria Callas

#angel #artist #devil #either #i

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#any #being #dirty #even #getting

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them. ↗

— Marie de France

#discretion #divers #end #faith #folk

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse. ↗

— John Gay

#foe #friend #may #open #pretended

This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal. ↗

— John Hawkins

#degree #equal #ever #executed #firmness

Tonight I'll dust myself off, tonight I'll suck my gut in, I'll face the night and I'll pretend I got something to believe in. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#dust #face #got #gut #i

I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#enough #hard #i #i can #interest

Iran stands behind a substantial number of terrorist actions against us, together with Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad. It pretends to care for the Palestinians. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#against #behind #care #iran #islamic