Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
People. Falling for each others pretensions, fakeness and whatever various faces they can put on to wear. And then they call it… — C. JoyBell C 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
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
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
“…a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian” — Renata Adler 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
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
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you… — Rob Brezsny 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
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
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
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley 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 have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. — Adam Ferguson 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
It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
