Quotes of: Feign Keyword

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Cloud Atlas

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

William Shakespeare

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

The Religious Affections

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Norman Macleod

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.

Lake Bell

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

The Art of War

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

Quentin Tarantino

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

Marquis de Sade

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Ward Churchill

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

Hedy Lamarr

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Michael Leunig

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Juan Goytisolo

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.

Roger Ascham

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.

Just One Day

She smiled and feigned enthusiasm, although she cared little for the game. Sometimes that's what you did for the people you loved.

The Tutor's Daughter

Miss Shields: Where's Flick? Has anyone seen Flick? Ralphie as an Adult: [narrating as Ralphie feigns ignorance] Flick? Flick who?

A Christmas Story

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Lud-in-the-Mist

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Revelation Space