It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the…

“The Daffodil-Yellow Villa The new villa was enormous, a tall, square Venetian mansion, with faded daffodil-yellow walls, green shutters, and a fox-red roof. It…

— Gerald Durrell

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

— Edwin Newman

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…

— Lester Bangs

All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should…

— Stephen Hunt

We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this…

— Billy Childish

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we…

— Noam Chomsky

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Terence McKenna

Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance…

— Billy Connolly

In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone conscious of…

— William Golding

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not…

— Cheryl Strayed

“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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…

— H. Rider Haggard

I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically,…

— Ali Sina