Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of more than oneself by someone… — William Golding Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed. — Ted Simmons Copy Share Image
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn't want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast… — Thomas Schlamme Copy Share Image
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
