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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nor ...drove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, ...and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods, Not terrible, though terror be in love,... And beauty, not approached by stronger hate, Hate stronger under show of love well feigned-- The way which to her ruin now I tend."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That high All-seer which I dallied with Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head,... And given in earnest what I begged in jest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In fear, one flees. One can pretend to fear, accordingly, by pretending to flee, a vigorous activity in which there may be little ...visible difference between pretense and reality. In horror, on the other hand, there is passivity, the passivity of presence. One stands (or sits) aghast, frozen in place, "glued to one's seat." ... Horror involves a helplessness which fear evades. The evasive activities of fear may be pointless, even self-defeating, but they are activities nonetheless, activities that can be feigned. Horror is a spectator's emotion, and thus it is especially well-suited for the cinema and the visual arts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned... On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »