Approach Quote by Stephen Fry

One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent…

— James Madison

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted…

— Alberto Manguel

“pedagogue n. FORMAL or HUMOROUS a teacher, especially a strict or pedantic one. late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave…

— Angus Stevenson

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

— Peter Baynham

People formerly seemed unable to evaluate a woman's c.v. or to accept a range of personal and communicative styles from the exuberant and confident…

— Catherine Wilson

You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all…

— Joe Flanigan

There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.

— Mark Kac

“To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough…

— William Hazlitt