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Letter "F" » feigned
«The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Eccentricities, eccentricity, faked, feigned, feigning, imitated, imposter, imposters, individualism, seasoned, surest, whimsicality
«Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities . . . are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.»
«And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.»
«And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.»
«Hear the right, o Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. (Psalms 17:1)»
«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 myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.»
«Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
expatiate, feigned, feigning, seriousness, without end
«This late dissension grown betwixt the peersBurns under feigned ashes of forged loveAnd will at last break out into a flame.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
ashes, betwixt, break out, Burns, dissension, feigned, feigning, forged, peering, peers
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