Pretensions Quotes

70 quotes by 63 authors

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to… — Simon Greenleaf
Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable… — Jacques Chirac
Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy… — H. L. Mencken
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who… — Frederic Chopin
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split. — Howard Thompson
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists… — Ishmael Reed
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the… — Frederick Buechner
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff… — David S. Goyer
Man â€” despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments â€” owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the… — Paul Harvey
... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint,… — Irving Stone
I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions. — Anson Mount
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? — Denis Norden
We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art. — Don Henley
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
Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines… — Samuel Johnson
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. — Emil Ludwig
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits — Frederick Crews
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

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