Quotes

Quotes about Pretension

The day are ever divine as to the first Aryans. They are of the least pretension, and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists. They come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.

William James

True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

William Cicero

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

Hosea Ballou

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Johann Kaspar Lavater