It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.
What is a harp but an oversized cheese slicer with cultural pretensions?
Just make sure your intentions are not pretensions.
When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.
The world is his who can see through its pretension.
Pretension is nothing; power is everything.
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.
General Otis is proclaimed American Military Governor of the Philippines and I protest a thousand times and with all the force in my soul against such pretension.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
