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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

Good God, is the man a heathen?'

'Worse, a capitalist with pretensions of culture. — Melanie Jackson

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions. — Hugo Chavez

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem ... ridiculous. — William Hazlitt

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. — Emil Ludwig

A canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting. — Irving Stone

Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming. — Julian Fellowes

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction. — Bob Ainsworth

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship. — Norm MacDonald

These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves. — Aldous Huxley

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

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. — Alex Winter

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler

Steeped like a teabag in aristocratic pretensions ... — Philip Roth

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

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable. — Samuel Johnson

We sweat for our pretensions. It — David Sedaris

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

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning. — Norm MacDonald

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate. — Vincent D'Onofrio

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

My personal peculiarities could not offend her since she was totally uninterested in my pretensions to be a person. — Iris Murdoch

Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner