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.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.