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The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.
— Philip Roth
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
— Tui T. Sutherland
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.
— Tsukahara Bokuden
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
— Felix Alba-Juez
You're ridiculous - "Heat crept up my face. "Well, you're a pompous ass. — Priya Kanaparti
I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
— Danny Boyle
Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?
— John Kennedy Toole
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
— G.K. Chesterton
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
— Barbara Stanwyck
The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
— John Fowles
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
— Shelley Duvall
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?
— Kathleen Turner
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
— Howard Cosell
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
— Bernard Cornwell
Simplicity is better than being pompous.
— Henry Johnson Jr
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
— Samuel Johnson
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
— Andy Hargreaves
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.
— Francesco Clemente
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
— Kevin Kline
She said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.
— Ilsa J. Bick
Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.
— Jose Limon
Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
— William Blake
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.
— John Shirley
He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.
— Edward St. Aubyn
Why is it that the less on has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.
— William Shatner
The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.
— Thomas Moore
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
— Marcus Brigstocke
If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous ... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov
— Anton Chekhov
Oh God, unattractive and pompous. A winning combination. My inner control panel is screaming ABORT! ABORT!
— Lauren Morrill
I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!
— Brian K. Vaughan
He was a cocky devil. Lisbeth liked cocky devils, just as she detested pompous jerks. There was only a subtle difference.
— Stieg Larsson
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.
— Camille Paglia
The downfall of any great nation ... always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.
— Timothy Pina
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.
— Martin Freeman
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It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.
— William Browning Spencer
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
— Don Adams
If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
— William Shatner
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.
— Peter Jackson
I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?
— Nicholas Parsons
