Pretension Quotes · Page 3

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.

— William E. Gladstone

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

— Amit Goswami

With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana…

— Howard Thompson

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

— Booth Tarkington

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God.…

— Pope Francis

“Just as hunters will mount the heads of the kills, white people need to let people know that they have made their…

— Christian Lander

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to…

— Alfred Nobel

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

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

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

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they…

— Richard Whately

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

“Pretension is a question of optics. The pessimist sees pretension as a sham. The optimist views it as innocent, tragicomic, an excess…

— Dan Fox

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have…

— Adolf Hitler

A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the…

— Adam Gopnik

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

Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any…

— Anonymous

Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you…

— Os Guinness

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

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,…

— Francis Galton

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

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.

— George Carlin

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

— Adam Ferguson

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy…

— Don Henley

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.

— Miuccia Prada

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.

— Aldous Huxley

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

— Joseph Glanvill

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

— Jane Austen

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

— Anatole France

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

— Alex Winter

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess…

— William James

If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

— Billy Sunday

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger