Pretension Quotes
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
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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.
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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.
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Faith begins where religious pretension ends.
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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
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Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
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A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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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.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
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I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. 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.
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I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
