Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Faith begins where religious pretension ends
I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!
Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike
No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.