“Nature is always pulling the rug out from under our pompous ideals.” — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
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
I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most. — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
“The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.” — Philip Roth 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
I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous. — Francesco Clemente 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
People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That's the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of… — Richard Ney 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
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what… — Peter Cushing Copy Share Image
I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here… — Richard Sherman 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
Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important;… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
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
The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner 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
“Once we've got you properly done up," her aunt said, "and he hears of your newfound wealth, he's sure to look your… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
What is necessary for 'the very existence of science,' and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by… — Richard P. Feynman 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
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 do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“You are shameless!” he said angrily. “Nonsense! You only say so because I drove your horses,” she answered. “Never mind! I will… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
I still audition a lot - it depends on the medium. For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
