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• I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

  John Fowles

  Hate, Jealous, Mean

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain depraved. They all write letters. It's their safe outlet, you see. They can be as interfering, as long-winded, as obscene, as pompous, as one-idea'd, as they like on paper, and no one can kick them for it. So they write. My God, how they write!

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Odds, Ideas

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• The lifestyle of many of our colleagues has been very pompous. They conduct weddings and birthdays in such an ostentatious manner that it pains me a lot. It appears that they are making fun of our commitment to the poor.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Fun, Pain, Commitment

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• I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

  John Lone

  Thinking, Sound, Want

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• Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Guy, Trying

  Richard P. Feynman (2010). “"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character: Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.284, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

  Alan Moore

  Marketing, Phrases, Idiot

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• Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

  Jane Austen

  Silly, Conceited, Men

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.82, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Honour You, Hands, Tables

  Hunter S. Thompson (1999). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Bullying, Father

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Two, Mind

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• The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Real, Luxury, Glasses

  Edward Gibbon (1846). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.106

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• I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

  John Shirley

  Men, Thinking, Enough

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• We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor ruthlessness. The way up our ladder is open to everybody. In promoting people to top jobs, we are influenced as much by their character as anything else.

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Character, Hard Work

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• It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

  Rob Sheffield

  Pain, Loss, Opposites

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.190, Crown Archetype

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• Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

  Georg Ebers

  Men, Christianity, Poor

  Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria

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• Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

  Jay Abraham

  Writing, Data, Giving

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• Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Book, Mean, Simple

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• Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.

  David Bowie

  Thinking, Ideas, Age

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Aaron Sorkin whole thing was that he didn't want the pomposity of the presidency in the West Wing. But once we cast Martin Sheen and we realised Martin's incredible accessibility, nothing felt pompous or aloof. If the show is about all the planets, let's end it with the sun.

  Thomas Schlamme

  Incredibles, Aloof, Pomposity

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The nice thing about us lot is that what we do is of no consequence. We don't do things that are important; we spend our lives doing things which are not important. That's what's nice about us, we're not pompous. We never do anything very bad that's gonna change the world. We're not serious, we're butterflies. We live for a day.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Nice, Butterfly, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel it's a bit pompous to state it that way, but it does distinguish me from other writers. When it was first on the web, people began to use it in an ironical and satirical way. Now, however, people tend to use it straight.

  Marina Warner

  Writing, Men, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

  Lynn Collins

  Medicine, People, Magic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Leaving, Consideration, Standards

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• For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Wall, Views, World

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• Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'

  Fred Melamed

  Character, Kids, Men

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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