Pompous Quotes

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I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. — Danny Boyle
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be… — Charles Caleb Colton
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace. — John Kenneth Galbraith
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant. — Tsukahara Bokuden
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser
I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound,… — Goldie Hawn
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I… — Piers Morgan
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing. — Barbara Stanwyck
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am. — Howard Cosell
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? — Kathleen Turner
Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable.… — Charlton Heston
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
What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies. — Peter Jackson
The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me… — Sonia Gandhi
I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity. — John Lone
... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in… — Jimi Hendrix
Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. — William Blake

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