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Pedant Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried…
More Pedant Quotes
- If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant… — Miguel de Unamuno
- The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
- A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. — Confucius
- Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? — Johann Kaspar Lavater
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton
- It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents… — Royal Cortissoz
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson