Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I… — Barbara Stanwyck Copy Share Image
My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live,… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
She knew more about these situations than she realized, he thought. She'd spent years at Duncan's side. "When in doubt," he added,… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people. — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact,… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists. — Arnold Newman Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
