Pomposity Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.
— Bill Maher
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this…
— Billy Childish
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I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way…
— Daryl Hall
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His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity
— Ann Coulter
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
— Fiona Shaw
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
— Edwin Newman
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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
— Henry Watson Fowler
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I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off…
— Charles Kimbrough
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People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.
— Elvis Costello
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I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.
— Billy Corgan
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Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.
— Rush Limbaugh
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All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know…
— Stephen Hunt
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A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In many college English courses the words “myth†and “symbol†are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich.…
— Cheryl Strayed
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French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.
— Ted Simmons
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact…
— Billy Childish
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Once upon a time; Their was a girl called CHARITY, on her way to PROSPERITY, she met a guy called POMPOSITY, that deceived and lead…
— Swag Jagar
Who Wrote These Pomposity Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Pomposity Quotes as follows: