Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross. — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it… — William James Copy Share Image
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.” — Ian Rankin Doors Open Copy Share Image
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough Copy Share Image
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
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