Pretension Quotes

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions.”

“I am an artist! I am a creative artist! Not a messer about with old junk.”

“They're not my words, they're the words of a great philosopher... anonymus.”

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

“High-brow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”

“I don't believe in putting on airs. I think it's a very English thing to do. I'm not a big fan of it.”

“A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better -- socially, intellectually, culturally -- than he or she really is.”

“We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have.”