Pompously Quotes

#1. From her he had learned two fundamental things about love: first, that unlike what the romantics so pompously argued, love was more a gradual course than a sudden blossoming at first sight, and second, that he was capable of loving.

Elif Shafak

#2. The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Thomas Paine

#3. How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

Ashly Lorenzana

#4. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum

#5. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Azar Nafisi

#6. Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#8. [Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

Michael Phelps

#9. I never prophesy," he declared pompously. "It is true that I have the habit of being always right - but I do not boast of it.

Agatha Christie

#10. Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.

Robertson Davies

#11. He's more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.

Eve Dangerfield

#12. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

Idries Shah

#13. I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her.

Darren Shan

#14. We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?" "Some

L. Frank Baum

#15. Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#16. The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Charles Caleb Colton

#17. I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

Vidal Sassoon

#18. I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.

Edmund White