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Tag Name "Pretensions" (60)

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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes his grapes are all sour.
Frederic Raphael
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Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.
Samuel Johnson
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We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
Don Henley
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What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
Denis Norden
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Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.
Norm MacDonald
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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... 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
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.
Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.
Ada Lovelace
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American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
H. L. Mencken
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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
Aldous Huxley
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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
Roger L'Estrange
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We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel Johnson
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You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.
Jane Austen
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
Mary Douglas
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I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.
Yves Saint Laurent
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THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.
Gian-Carlo Rota
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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
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
Stendhal
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