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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
— Tom Bodett
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
— John Campbell Shairp
Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly.
— William James
Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.
— Samuel Beckett
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and his pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
— Anatole France
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
— Adam Ferguson
Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.
— Patrick White
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
— George Carlin
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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.
— Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.
— Sreesha Divakaran
In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
— Horatio Greenough
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!
— Isaac Asimov
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
— Theophrastus
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.
— Robert Charles Wilson
It is one thing to read scandalous verse, quite another to disguise it behind lofty pretension.
— Maggie Fenton
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.
— Miuccia Prada
He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline.
— Ian Rankin
Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.
— William E. Gladstone
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Pretentious quotations [are] the surest road to tedium.
— Henry Watson Fowler
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
— Daniel Boulud
Faith begins where religious pretension ends
— Austin Farrer
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
— Margot Fonteyn
She was so scared that she forgot to be a contralto.
— Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
— Amit Goswami
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
— Emil Ludwig
What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
— David Duchovny
The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
— D. A. Carson
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
— Samuel Foote
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton