Pretentious Quote by Lauren Groff

“lugubrious for that. I say, isn’t “lugubrious”

— Clara Benson

“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”

— Robert W. Bly

“high-fiving one another without evident irony.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry…

— Thomas Paine

“Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“i luv to read”

— Lathers Richard

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“And continued to regard all their absurdities in the most rosy light through the admiring eyes of love.”

— Marcel Proust

“Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious. ”

— Charles Baudelaire