Quotes About Pompous

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

A Johnsonian portentousness emanated from him.

I haven't always played nice guys. In 'Gremlins,' I was a conceited, pompous braggart, and I was a redneck chauvinist in the TV movie 'A Matter of Sex.' But I really prefer sympathetic roles.

He was always surprised more people didn't break under the assault of hours of self-aggrandizing orations delivered in pompous monotones.

Don't presume you know what's best for him, Karin. I've been seeing to his needs for over a century." She glowered at the ceiling. "All I'm suggesting is that he doesn't need a modification for my sake. I think he's just fine the way he is." "You're wrong." You pompous machine.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

Journalists can get very pompous, especially in the formalized days of 'Meet the Press,' when they took themselves so damned seriously.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.

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

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

Only I can play Modi. I say that even at the cost of sounding pompous because I really love him.

There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.