Pretension Quotes

126 Pretension quotes by 104 unique authors

Is psychiatry a medical enterprise concerned with treating diseases, or a humanistic enterprise concerned with helping persons with their personal problems? Psychiatry could be one… — Thomas Szasz
He sighed deeply: to fall in love at first sight with this malodorous sleeping girl, with, as far as he could see, no pretensions to… — Betty Neels
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension — Henry Rollins
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A… — Carl Sagan
Thus, for followers of Christ, calling neutralizes the fundamental position of choice in modern life. “I have chosen you,” Jesus said, “you have not chosen… — Os Guinness
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves… — David O. McKay
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the… — Mark Twain
Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend,… — Rajneesh
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension. — Herb Kelleher
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or… — Alfred Nobel
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking… — Virat Kohli
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. — Tom Bodett
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant. — Daniel Boulud
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. — Adam Ferguson
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and sentimentality associated with the blues, the rawness… — Jon Landau
But laughter is in some way unique; when you laugh, you are also total in it. A laughter which is not total will be phony,… — Unknown Author
We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to sit down and feel sorry for these… — Unknown Author
When life is stripped away and pretension is gone, we experience moments that leave lasting marks on our soul. — Songyujin

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