#pretension

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ↗

— Frederic Raphael

#criticizes #does #grapes #his #labour

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em. ↗

— Alex Winter

#fun #innocent #movies #pretensions #were

He had perfected the art of looking interested, and could grasp in surprise at any and every predictable punchline. ↗

— Ian Rankin Doors Open

#art

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. ↗

— David Duchovny

#arrogance #mad #makes #me #pretension

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #artists #find #great

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

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. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#come #encouragement #friends #hearts #holds

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#myth #pretension #sardonic #experience

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #induces #life #mediocrity