Bombast Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
The most important things must be said simply, for they are spoiled by bombast; whereas trivial things must be described grandly, for they are supported… — Jean de la Bruyere
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally… — John Dryden
It is astonishing how articulate one can become when alone and raving at a radio. Arguments and counter arguments, rhetoric and bombast flow from one's… — Stephen Fry
Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a… — Rob Brezsny
Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's… — Catherynne M. Valente
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without… — Henry Lawson
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and it's the bombast and the… — Def Leppard

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