Pretension Quotations | Page 2

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

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.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.

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.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.