Quotes About Pretentious

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

...Don't you just hate a phony-looking stiff?" - Aunt Edna

I concede that a bad romantic novel is embarrassing and indefensible. So is a bad so-called realistic novel. (And it is usually pretentious into the bargain which is insufferable.) But a good romantic novel is a heart-warming thing which strikes a responsive chord in those who are happy and offers a certain lifting of the spirits to those who are not.

They'd like the world to think they're hot snot on a gold platter. But really, they're just cold boogers on a paper plate.

mad Napoleonic-posturing poets; and psychologically impaired dilettantes who assumed their renditions and imitations of Wintergarten headliners were superior to the originals.

Llevar anteojos era considerado pretencioso, era señal de ahorro, de trabajo serio, de una concepción moderna del mundo.

I've met plenty of fancy people. They're too scared to have any real ambition

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

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