Pompous Quotes - Page 6

• These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Purpose, Use, Paper

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.215

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• I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.

  Robertson Davies

  Men, Thinking, Games

  "High Spirits: A Collection of Ghost Stories". Book by Robertson Davies, 1982.

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• I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Example, Genius

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• On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

  Joe Orton

  Home, Waiting, Way

  "The Orton Diaries". Edited by John Lahr, p. 137, 1986.

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