Quotes About Self-important

My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

and they've concluded that our democratic system is an abject failure. And they think we Americans are weak, lazy, whiny, self-important global has-beens, inflated with a false sense of entitlement. In this, they are probably correct.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Barton Fink is just too self-important as an artist to get much sympathy.

Emma Morley wasn't such a paragon either: pretentious, petulant, lazy, speechifying, judgmental. Self-pitying, self righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she had always needed the most.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

Lo peor es que es usted pretencioso incluso en sus desarreglos mentales.

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

Egotist a person more interested in himself than in me.

Let me tell you about Tidy. She's smug, self-important, and frankly, just an asshole.

University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.

E looks a bit of a swankpot.

A mob of self-important ducks had already gathered,

It is unfair of me to say so, but the slogan Booth shouted from the stage of Ford's Theatre, the over-blown, self-important, pseudo-Shakespearean blather, being etched on the sign marking his death feels like the stamp of approval.

We're too busy being special.

The individual who pretends to act for such noble ends and who masters such admirable oratory counts in his own eyes as an excellent creature – he gives himself and others a swelled head, although the swelling is only due to self-important puffery.

that bumptious, prosing piece of self-consequence that never crossed anything but a slug in his life!

My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot, ... So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

It's actually somewhat common for people facing death to reach out to God," Boner says, in the exact same self-important, didactic tone he employed as a kid when explaining to us what a blow job was.

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.