Supercilious Quotes

9 quotes by 9 authors

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating. — John Lydon
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He looked as if he'd stepped straight off the cover of one of those romance novels she ordered from Amazon.com so she didn't have to… — Karen Marie Moning
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has… — Susanna Clarke
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea." "Yes,… — Cassandra Clare
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike

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