Pedantic Quotes

22 Pedantic quotes by 22 unique authors

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without… — Jerome K. Jerome
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient… — Jack Vance
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. — A. A. Gill
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular… — Winston Churchill
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who… — Diane Ackerman
Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language,… — Michel de Montaigne
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not… — Edmund Burke
If form is mechanically applied, it may indeed result in work that is conventional, if not pedantic or stupid. But form used well can become… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. — William Congreve
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. — Desiderius Erasmus
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for… — Joe Flanigan
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne… — Bonnie Raitt
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth
I am aware of the technical distinction between ‘less’ and ‘fewer’, and between ‘uninterested’ and ‘disinterested’ and ‘infer’ and ‘imply’, but none of these are… — Stephen Fry
Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic… — John Donne
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes… — James D. Watson
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Pedantic Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 22 Pedantic Quotes as follows: