How can a gang of pompous little men so quickly destroy…

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

— John Fowles

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are…

— Anonymous

I was a fool!" Percy roared, so loudly that Lupin nearly dropped his photograph. "I was an idiot, I was a pompous prat, I…

— Anonymous

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.

— Anonymous

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

— Anonymous

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but…

— Tina Brown

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

— Francesco Clemente

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

“He felt people were never intentionally beastly or malicious, but they were pompous and foolish; awful decisions were made by men divorced from their…

— Glen David Gold

I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see…

— Lawrence Kaplan

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact…

— William Thomas

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded…

— Thomas Merton

Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry.…

— Peter McWilliams

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

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

— Thomas Browne