Pretension Quotes
Pretension Quote of the day
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.
Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
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 problems of love.
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 week-day preacher.
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be weak, their powers of expression will be likewise.
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
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 to improve my English.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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 ask that love should lead them somewhere.
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.
The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment
