Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll doesn't change. All the idiocies and pretension continue. — Harry Shearer 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
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
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough 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
A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God — Pope Francis 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
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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 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
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
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
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible… — Anthony Trollope 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
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed… — Frederic Chopin 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
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt 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
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills… — Alfred Tarski 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
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett 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
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation. — Francis Bacon 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
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
