Pretension Quotes

126 Pretension quotes by 104 unique authors

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here… — Dylan Thomas
Faith begins where religious pretension ends — Austin Farrer
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
I'd been to a lot of shows and I was just tired of people being jaded about music in general. Just a lot of pretensions,… — Girl Talk
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. — Vincent D'Onofrio
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. — David Duchovny
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. — William Hazlitt
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we… — Guy Laliberte
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. — William James
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical;… — John O'Donohue
Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to… — Victor Hugo
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he… — Frank Herbert
I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. — Jane Austen
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a… — Jeanette Winterson
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I… — Ingmar Bergman
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant. — H. L. Mencken
... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance. — D. A. Carson
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley

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