“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ”
- Hosea Ballou- Copy
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“ Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ Of all the pretenses of the formal party season, the hardest, I find, is pretending that your clothes fit. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
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“ To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. ”
- Booth Tarkington- Copy
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“ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ”
- Jacques Derrida- Copy
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“ He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. ”
- Anatole France- Copy
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“ We are now able to see things in nature of what was previously only available in computer simulation. ”
- Patrick Henry- Copy
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“ Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ Man is a make-believe animal — he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. ”
- Marcus Fabius Quintilian- Copy
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“ God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
- Havelock Ellis- Copy
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“ Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. ”
- John Buchan- Copy
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