Quotes by Pretension 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 pretension growth vulnerable Faith begins where religious pretension ends Austin Farrer pretension ends religious What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions? Denis Norden pretension harps cheese The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton pretence pretension higher Pretension is nothing; power is everything. Edwin Percy Whipple pretension power Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions. Emil Ludwig pretension intention planning Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. Eric Temple Bell pretension absolute-truth eternal and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez pretension findings problem Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. Hosea Ballou being-original pretension originals Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. Mary Douglas pretension moral destructive No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing. Mahatma Gandhi pretension government war There are all these levels of pretension in LA. Every time you walk into a café or a bar or a restaurant in LA everybody turns around to see if you're famous. Everybody can seem like a celebrity. You can meet somebody who looks like Joe Schmoe and he turns out to be the head of HBO or something. Or you meet a person who just won an Oscar and he looks like he just won an Oscar. And it's a sprawling city, there's so many different parts to it. Ottessa Moshfegh pretension different For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. Richard Brinsley Sheridan pretension sincere One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance. Samuel Foote pretension exterior ignorance I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. Theophrastus boasters pretension doe Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am. Tom Bodett pretension self thinking