Pretended Quotations
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Jacques Derrida
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Cary Grant
The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.
Maria Mitchell
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Quintilian
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
Jane Jacobs
Pretended Translations
pretended in German is gab vor, angeblich, vermeintlich
pretended in Italian is presunto
pretended in Spanish is presunto
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