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Tag Name "Feign" (30)

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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
David Mitchell
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
Edward Young
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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
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I do not feign hypotheses.
Isaac Newton
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It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.
John F. Kerry
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Juan Goytisolo
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Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
Lake Bell
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all hark back to an earlier time when people were still optimistic about the future. If everything worth doing has already been done, you may as well feign an allergy to achievement and become a barista.
Peter Thiel
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Painting can feign reality without having seen it.
Roland Barthes
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
Sun Tzu
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Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
Thomas Otway
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His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
William Watson
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Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
Albert Speer
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It is impossible to feign mastery of an instrument, however skillful the impostor may be.
Andres Segovia
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.
Corey Taylor
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If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.
Du Mu
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We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I feign no hypotheses.
Isaac Newton
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Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.
John Donne
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Musical acts that feign enthusiasm for what they're doing the guitarist who jumps up and down, like it's choreographed are so transparently vacuous.
John Maus
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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.
Juvenal
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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
Lionel Shriver
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Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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