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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work.

Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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