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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.
— Jane Austen
With no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvis Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a Banana Split.
— Howard Thompson
I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
— Anson Mount
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
— Jane Austen
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
— Frederic Raphael
The worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
— D. A. Carson
What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.
— Pierre-Jean De Beranger
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
— Emil Ludwig
Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.
— Julian Fellowes
Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous.
— William Hazlitt
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
— Hugo Chavez
All the pretensions you make of attachment to your Master, and all the devout actions which you may perform, are no recompense for disobedience.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits
— Frederick Crews
Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility.
— Pat Conroy
To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.
— Charlotte Bronte
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
— Samuel Johnson
Despite its scientificpretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner
My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person.
— Iris Murdoch
No pretensions of goodness, of trying to do the right thing. We'd both wanted to embrace this fucked-up thing between us.
— Leah Raeder
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
— Vincent D'Onofrio
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
— Roger L'Estrange
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.
— Norm MacDonald
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
We sweat for our pretensions. It
— David Sedaris
Steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions ...
— Philip Roth
Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
— Alex Winter
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
— Robert H. Schuller
These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
