The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable. — William E. Gladstone 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
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
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a fiction with pretensions to truth. Despite everything that we have been inculcated, all that we believe, photography always… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in… — Emilio Aguinaldo Copy Share Image
I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension. — Miuccia Prada 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
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
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