Quotes About Pretentiousness

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious,' she said. 'I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

It's hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious," she said. "I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

It's so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious. I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you've swallowed the universe? Not say so?

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as though he knew everything.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Anyone who takes themselves very seriously, or is in any way pompous, or thinks of themselves quite highly, as soon as you pull out one little thread, you find one little chink... that's when it's the funniest.

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

decididos a no aprender más de lo necesario para cazar una sinecura, pobres diablos cuya fermentación de espíritu no era más que un brote de sangre que desaparecería con la juventud. Poco a poco, este desdén se hizo extensivo a sus amigos cabalistas, espíritus huecos hinchados de viento, atiborrados de palabras que no entendían y que regurgitaban en fórmulas.

Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

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There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

self-righteousness flows with great solemnity

The silliest questions are those seeking to be "deep" and/or "intelligent" and that, in fact, are absolutely hollow and stupid. For example: "What do you think is the situation of the Latin American intellectual?" What can I say in response to such generalities? My answer: "I do not know, nor do I care to know.

Không có gì th?m h?i h?n m?t ?ám c??ng hào t?nh l? t? hoàn thu? cho mình trong ti?c buffet c?a th? tr??ng

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

God save us from people who think they're smarter than they actually are.

Who names themselves 'The Situation?' I do not take myself seriously like that - not in the least bit - that would be so pretentious.