Annoying Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

— Anonymous

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

— Holbrook Jackson

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

— Jonathan Swift

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

— Josh Billings

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers…

— Giordano Bruno

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

I'm absolutely pedantic about language; it must go back to my schools.

— June Brown

To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

— Leonora Speyer

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

— Joseph Addison

People sometimes think that defining a term is pedantic and useless, but terms need to be defined if they're going to be discussed, even…

— Pattiann Rogers

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton