Pompous Quotes

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey
But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled,… — Jack Newfield
For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd… — Jean Pigozzi
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to… — Fred Melamed
Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people. — Kevin Kline
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a… — Joyce Cary
I don't want to make pompous, serious films. — Danny Boyle
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. — Bernard Cornwell
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is… — Lynn Collins
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and… — Peter Cushing
Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what… — Jonathan Kellerman
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the… — Michel Gondry
Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee. — Leonard Louis Levinson
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson
Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown… — Alexander Pope
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to… — Joan D. Chittister
Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the… — Vladimir Lenin
Freedom, Truth, Honour Â— you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little… — Hunter S. Thompson

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