Pretention Quotes

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

When we need reasons to do something, we pretend to have it.

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...

You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

Thomas Bernhard

I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.