Quotes Tagged With :pretension

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making....

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and....

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of....

A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality....

I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole....

She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as....

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance....

A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its....

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is....