Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
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.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
I don't like bullshit and pretense. I can't enjoy the joy at church... without some cash in my wallet.
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
