Top 171 Pompous Quotes & Sayings

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

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

James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.

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

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

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

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's merely the vanity of advancing age.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for doing what I love doing.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.

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.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

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

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

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

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

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

Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.

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.

Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

The word 'phobic' has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insistence that most animosity is based upon fear rather than loathing.

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

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Without wanting to sound pompous or clever it is down to me to make decisions on behalf of the side to give it the best chance of being successful.

Posterity is something I'm a big fan of because that's how you leave your legacy. Not to sound pompous, but just to be truthful.

I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I'd started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

Dancers aren't pompous; they're too tired.

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?

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

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.