Pompous Quotes

• If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

  Paul Simon

  Humor, Special, Littles

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• Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

  Sid Vicious

  Alive, Anarchy, Causes

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• I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

  Kathleen Turner

  Thinking, Sound, Purpose

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• People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Conceited, Self, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.149

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

  Shelley Duvall

  Events, Boring, Affected

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• Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

  Charlton Heston

  Silly, Evil, Catholic

  Interview with Ken Masugi and Colleen Ryor, ashbrook.org. October 6, 1995.

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• Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Expression, Purple, Style

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Fun, Ignorance

  "The Speaker", December 15, 1900.

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• A man sufficiently gifted with humor is in small danger of succumbing to flattering delusions about himself, because he cannot help perceiving what a pompous ass he would become if he did.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Helping, Ass

  KONRAD LORENZ (1963). “ON AGRESSION”

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• That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

  Bill Maher

  Blow, Circles, Internet

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• Take your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously

  Clint Eastwood

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• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

  Peter Jackson

  Pretentious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

  Neil Cavuto

  Hate, Conceited, People

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• Clutter is the disease of American writing.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Jargon, Disease

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Promise, Democracy, Phrases

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Hate, America, Self

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• The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Science, Microscopes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

  William Blake

  Love, Secret Places, Feet

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.822, Pearson Education

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• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  Oriana Fallaci

  War, Believe, Soul

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• Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

  Leonard Louis Levinson

  Chicago, Milwaukee

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• Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

  William Shatner

  Inspirational, Success, Insightful

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• Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Jobs, Women, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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