Browsing Topic Best Feigning Quotes

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

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

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

In the business world, what’s the female equivalent of going golfing with a client? Laney gave this some thought. Payton fell silent, too, contemplating. After a few moments, neither of them could come up with anything. How depressing. Payton sighed, feigning resignation. Well, that’s it. I guess I’ll just have to sleep with them. Laney folded her hands primly on the table. I think I’m uncomfortable with this conversation.

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!

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

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don’t have can be–Sholto