Quotes About Pretentious

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

Ostentatious," he sniffed, slipping into

There's nothing more tedious than people who like to talk about themselves.

She felt awkward and stiff at most gatherings, although Ross's mother assured her that she would feel more comfortable as time passed. She found it somewhat easier to mix with "second-tier" sorts, such as Sir Grant and his wife, Victoria, and the crowd of professionals who were not nearly as rarefied as those in the first circles. These people were far less pretentious, and far more aware of ordinary matters like the cost of bread and the concerns of the poor.

Tragically misunderstood? Hah! I understand you, buddy. You're such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded 

You're such a pompous, arrogant, pretentious, chauvinistic, hopelessly old-fashioned, stupidly pigheaded

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

We were a quartet of idiots trying to look suave.

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough.

The intellectually insecure drop the word "pretentious" to shut down a conversation they don't understand, when simply saying "I don't know" or asking "Can you explain this?" would be more gracious ways to admit to being in the dark. Cutting someone down for pretension reveals, ironically, embarrassed arrogance rather than humility.

Being pretentious is rarely harmful to anyone. Accusing others of it is. You can use the word "pretentious" as a weapon with which to bludgeon other people's creative efforts, but in shutting them down the accusation will shatter in your hand and out will bleed your own insecurities, prejudices, and unquestioned assumptions.

Claims to ordinariness and salt-of-the-earth virtue—"slumming it," as it's crudely called—are themselves pretentious. The assumption that dropping your aitches or asserting a love of a cheap beer over a fine wine, or processed cheese over a Parmesan, will make you seem unspoiled or somehow more gritty is classic downwardly mobile play-acting.

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility.

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Doug could tell the man was a lawyer just by how he walked. So smug and full of himself. Three years in law school and pretentious English majors turn into unholy assholes.

B*tch you're like a cartoon, fake as f*ck.

My cairns were obvious, pretentious, rococo.

I hate Tolkien. I mean. Bloody pretentious escapist nonsense, isn't it?

I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.