Pretensions Quotes

70 quotes by 61 authors

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
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
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. — William Hazlitt
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
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
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
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
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
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
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen
Humans â€” who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals â€” 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. â€œI have chosen you,â€ Jesus said, â€œyou have not chosen… — Os Guinness
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
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

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