Pretentious Quotes

149 quotes by 130 authors

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it — Marianne Moore
You live for pretentious metaphors. — John Green
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine. — Derek Landy
Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for? — Julian Barnes
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try… — Charles Bukowski
Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician. — Anton Szandor LaVey
...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that… — George Albert Wells
The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of… — Alan Watts
This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual… — Kandyse McClure
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art. — Nate Lowman
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to… — Eleanor Catton
To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that… — Nicole Holofcener
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way.… — Russell Smith
I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole. — Sue Townsend
When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory. — Ira Glass
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care… — Pico Iyer
A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work. — Nick Robinson
After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance… — Hjalmar Schacht
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes… — Jon Ronson
Wow. I am really pretentious. — Rob Corddry

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