Quotes Tagged With :pretension

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

He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without....

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage,....

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

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he....

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

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.

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

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

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