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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

On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, Melancholia? Ad nauseam. — Joe Orton

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

Who is this pompous hobgoblin? His jaw had grown square, his belly had gone soft. He was parading like a dictator in jockey shorts and argyle socks. — Genie Frisbee

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

Are you smirking at me, Mr. Grey? I ask sweetly. Pompous ass. — E.L. James

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations. — Peter Ustinov

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

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age. — S.J Perelman

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

I am not hysterical. I'm angry, you pompous toad!." Riona tore away. — Linda Windsor

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

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me. — Sara Raasch

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

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. — Arnold Newman

I'll even let Heath help out," he really
sounded like a pompous butt.
You'll let me help out?" Heath snapped. "Your mom will let me
help out. — Kristin Cast

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

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings. — Georg Ebers

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

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

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 don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity. — John Lone

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne

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

You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent ... - Yossarian — Joseph Heller

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 hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people. — Neil Cavuto

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius! — Brian K. Vaughan

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. — Alan Moore

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

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

She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added, "be pompous. — John Flanagan

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance. — Vanna Bonta