Pretension Quotes

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

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.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it.