Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what… — Barbara Stanwyck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You punk asshole. What was this? A game for you? This is my life’s work you just annihilated and for what? Shits… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. — Tsukahara Bokuden Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
This means that we have barely disembarked into life, that we've only just now been born, let's not fill our mouths with… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity. — John Lone Copy Share Image
Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
