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
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue 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
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana… — Howard Thompson Copy Share Image
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis 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
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well… — Henry Fielding 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
For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? — Denis Norden Copy Share Image
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
He sighed deeply; to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see,… — Betty Neels 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
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
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
