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 humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture…He takes upon himself… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one… — Yves Saint Laurent 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
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you… — William Hazlitt 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
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it… — Frederick Crews Copy Share Image
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann 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
What I bring - my team and I, because it's not only me - is this sense of elegance and casualness, and… — Daniel Boulud 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
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar: without a… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“The accuser of pretension always presumes bad intentions. Truth is, more often than not pretension is simply someone trying to make the… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible… — H. L. Mencken 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
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human condition, embodying once again man’s… — Frédéric Gros 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
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 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
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be… — Ishmael Reed 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
I've been playing piano my whole life but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made really. Try to imagine if… — Caio Fonseca 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
“The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of… — Frederick Douglass 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
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
