Pretension Quotes

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.

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

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

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for 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.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

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