Quotes About Pretension

You don't know nothing, that's what I figured out. You don't know nothing, but you act like god anyway.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Siempre he sentido una repugnancia casi física por las cosas secretas, las intrigas, la diplomacia, las sociedades secretas, el ocultismo. Sobre todo siempre me han molestado estas dos últimas cosas: la pretensión que tienen ciertos hombres de saber, mediante un entendimiento con dioses o maestros o Demiurgos –entre ellos, excluidos todos nosotros–, los grandes secretos que son los fundamentos del mundo.

For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie

And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

En un mundo donde el horror se vende como arte, donde el arte nace ya con la pretensión de ser fotografiado, donde convivir con las imágenes del sufrimiento no tiene relación con la conciencia ni con la compasión, las fotos de guerra no sirven para nada.

Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth.

Liberty to have any meaning had to be based on law, and law in its turn on morality: that is, on justice. For Burke brought to the French Revolution the historic English touchstone of every political pretension: its compatibility with fair and kindly dealing. "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice," he wrote, "neither is safe.

The middlebrow, I hate.

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

The criminal resembles the artist in his pretension, his incompetence, and his self-pity.

Then he closed his eyes and put his hands together again before his face, finger to finger. Johnny was struck by the kid's lack of pretension. There was a simplicity about the gesture that had been honed by use into beauty.

Qué caras! ¡Qué tipos! Era la burguesía anodina y zafia de todo el Globo pronta a volcarse en las entrañas del paquebote para recrearse en un viaje de circunvolución mediterránea que iba a durar un mes y del que volverían tan anodinos y tan zafios como se habían marchado, pero llenos de la soberbia y de la presunción que dan ciertos nombres de leyenda a quien los pronuncia sin estar habituado a ellos.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

A warrior without pretension was unencumbered by distraction.

ma pis in piscina prietenilor mei- modul meu de a le mai dilua pretentiile

Even when consciously savoring tea, connoisseurship should never lapse into affectation. Chinese tea-lovers often mock the Japanese tea ceremony for its picayune rules and tiresome rituals. In contrast with stern Japanese formality, Chinese tea-drinking embodies a far more natural aesthetic. Whenever you drink tea, remember to relax, be yourself, and enjoy the moment. Any trace of fussiness or pretension violates the free and easy Daoist spirit that makes Chinese tea-drinking so enjoyable.

By now, cooking has become so thickly crusted with pretension and gadgetry and marketing hype that the effort to reduce it to its most basic elements, to drive it into a corner and see it plainly, seemed like a good way to take hold of it again.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.