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Letter "F" » feign
«Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.»
Author: Frank Medlicott
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
agreement, cowardice, feign, feigning, in agreement, tact, tactful, weakness
«Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, carries his own accuser in his breast»
«He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her»
«There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
almost, deceive, dependable, feign, feigning, impressions, livelier, lively, no more, pain and pleasure, perpetually, sensation, The Impressions, The Pleasure
«And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: / And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.»
«And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.»
«Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others»
«And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.»
«There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.»
«The truest poetry is the most feigning;and lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetrymay be said, as lovers, they do feign.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feign, feigning, swear, swear in, truest
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