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To look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
— Yann Martel
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
— Luc De Clapiers
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
— Richard Dawkins
How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge.
— Cecelia Ahern
That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over.
— Meljean Brook
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.
— Pliny The Elder
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
— Patrice Leconte
presumptuous - but he's got to he with someone
— David Gerrold
The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.
— R.C. Sproul
He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.
— Aporva Kala
It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
— Gail Carson Levine
Remember that though humility, without firmness, may be cowardly, yet courage without humility is presumptuous.
— Marie Angelique Arnauld
I did not want to quarrel with her, although I thought her both presumptuous and rude.
— George MacDonald
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
— Vidal Sassoon
Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.
— Terry Pratchett
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
— George Canning
How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.
— Anne Nicol Gaylor
God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.
— Edward Reynolds
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
— Luc De Clapiers
Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.
— Samuel R. Delany
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
— Phillips Brooks
A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.
— Annie Leibovitz
It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
— Stanley Schmidt
In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
— Jessica Savitch
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
— Luc De Clapiers
There's something presumptuous in writing an autobiography, as if people's interest in your life is a given.
— Simon Pegg
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
— Walter Darby Bannard