The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. — William James 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
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
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension. — Kesha Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White 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
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
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
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
It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It… — John Stuart Mill 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
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
What I bring - my team and I, because it's not only me - is this sense of elegance and casualness, and… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”… — Jane Austen 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
“...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
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“…a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian” — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger 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. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in…” quote by William H. Gass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a8/william-h-gass-4166_academic_i-do-have-a-very-conscious-desire-not-to_472581.jpg)
