Quotes About Pomposity

#1. I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

Lester Bangs

#2. I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

Daryl Hall

#3. It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.

Noorilhuda

#4. People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Elvis Costello

#5. There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.

Ted Simmons

#6. An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of representing more than himself.

William Golding

#7. His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity

Ann Coulter

#8. I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Billy Corgan

#9. These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

Terence McKenna

#10. Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Henry Watson Fowler

#11. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

Ali Sina

#12. That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

Bill Maher

#13. We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.

Billy Childish

#14. (Schoenberg himself, however, had no time for Adorno, complaining of his 'pomposity' and 'oily pathos',

Tom Service

#15. All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know better. Most of the time I just want to shake some sense into the world.

Stephen Hunt

#16. Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

John Rae

#17. Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes.

Stephen Fry

#18. How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

H. Rider Haggard

#19. I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

Fiona Shaw

#20. Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Edwin Newman

#21. A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#22. There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Sara Zarr

#23. The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?

Rand Paul

#24. Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Raheel Farooq

#25. And she wanted so much to make him happy that she forgot how to make herself happy"
"That is not happiness. That is kind of murder, yeah?

Libba Bray

#26. Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Jordan Belfort

#27. he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to 'ninety k' and 'a quarter of a mill', and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his cleverness, his quick thinking, his besting of slower, stupider yet more senior colleagues...

Robert Galbraith

#28. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]

Edmund Burke

#29. Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Johnny Carson

#30. Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.

Eric Weiner

#31. So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Hill Harper

#32. It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Carl Sagan

#33. All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy