All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. — Vincent D'Onofrio Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners. In twenty years, they’d have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess… — William James Copy Share Image
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter 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
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension — Henry Rollins 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
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
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald 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
