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

  Clint Eastwood

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

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• I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

  Danny Boyle

  Want, Serious, Film

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

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• I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

  Peter Cushing

  Thinking, Sound, Done

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• Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  Don Adams

  Awkward, Degrees, Sentimental

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• I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

  Danny Boyle

  Serious, Want, Kind

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

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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Animal, Men

  'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

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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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• I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

  Goldie Hawn

  Book, Sound, May

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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