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Lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some other vocational subject, but in the case of English, the natural thing to do was talk a lot, listen to music, drink coffee and wine, read books, and go to plays, perhaps be in plays ... ~ Stephen Fry
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F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vastly superior to Brodnax and Speer. His sidekicks at the moment are W. Harper Whittenson, an arrogant little snot who will, thankfully, leave Memphis and practice with a mega-firm in Dallas; J. Townsend Gross, who has accepted a position with another huge firm; and James Straybeck, a sometimes friendly sort who's suffered three years of law school without an initial to place before his name or numerals to stick after it. With such a short name, his future as a big-firm lawyer is in jeopardy. I doubt if he'll make it. ~ John Grisham
Pretentiousness quotes by John Grisham
We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred. ~ Aleksandar Hemon
Pretentiousness quotes by Aleksandar Hemon
However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive. ~ Harry G. Frankfurt
Pretentiousness quotes by Harry G. Frankfurt
A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of. ~ Raymond Chandler
Pretentiousness quotes by Raymond Chandler
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it ~ Marianne Moore
Pretentiousness quotes by Marianne Moore
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not. ~ Criss Jami
Pretentiousness quotes by Criss Jami
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures. ~ Mindy Kaling
Pretentiousness quotes by Mindy Kaling
Theology is indispensable for religious communities to make sense of themselves and their changing views about the world in light of what is perceived to be revelation, but, at the same time, that theology can have a pretentiousness, or double pretentiousness, if it is acontextual as opposed to contextual, if it is foundationalist as opposed to antifoundationalist, or ahistorical as opposed to historicist. ~ Cornel West
Pretentiousness quotes by Cornel West
Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. ~ Rick Warren
Pretentiousness quotes by Rick Warren
Pretentiousness is a comedy vein filled with riches. ~ Torry Martin
Pretentiousness quotes by Torry Martin
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know. ~ Criss Jami
Pretentiousness quotes by Criss Jami
The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it. ~ Criss Jami
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There can be no such thing as "philosophical horror", at least as a premeditated genre. Why? Because philosophy implies enquiry, reflection and an open mind, whereas the genre of horror demands certain conclusions in advance. ~ Quentin S. Crisp
Pretentiousness quotes by Quentin S. Crisp
A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him by inferences from little actions, of which he is unconscious, and from fleeting expressions, which cross his face unknown to him. Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. But in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. His pretentiousness will only expose his vacuity. The lathe painted to look like iron is seen to be but a lathe. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. To the acute observer no one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of the soul. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
Pretentiousness quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
These were wannabe elites who, once they popped on big-boy pants, would be infiltrating New York with their pretentiousness. ~ Alexandra Martin
Pretentiousness quotes by Alexandra Martin
I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you to have a brain. ~ T.J. Kirk
Pretentiousness quotes by T.J. Kirk
I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself as one, at least in some small measure. Not a Michelangelo, mark you, but perhaps a poor man's Cellini or a road company Cosimo de' Medici ... the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist. ~ Lucius Beebe
Pretentiousness quotes by Lucius Beebe
Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering obstacles, they simply pretend they don't exist. ~ Tiffany Madison
Pretentiousness quotes by Tiffany Madison
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics ... For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew. ~ Polybius
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Short lives,

bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma's lap.

Small helpless states,

pretentiousness garbed in the unintelligible,

makers of disposable art,

the zeal to make a scoop unstoppable,

pacified by fresh news,

of scrabbling sexy movements. ~ Brian D'Ambrosio
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All too often people are not aware of the trait-----whether positive or negative----they have absorbed from their families. You may feel contempt for your family's pretentiousness and be unaware that you have absorbed some of the same mannerisms. Awareness of the trait could easily lead to it's amelioration. Similarly, a positive awareness of connectedness to family can give you a sense of belonging and a feeling of continuity that will strengthen your own sense of identity. ~ Monica McGoldrick
Pretentiousness quotes by Monica McGoldrick
You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day. ~ Ahmed Mostafa
Pretentiousness quotes by Ahmed Mostafa
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. ~ Richard Mitchell
Pretentiousness quotes by Richard Mitchell
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing. ~ Brenda Ueland
Pretentiousness quotes by Brenda Ueland
He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he'd been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which he tolerated with as much good humor as could be expected. ~ Lev Grossman
Pretentiousness quotes by Lev Grossman
A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical appetites and repulsive pretensions, shedding artificial attachments, living without grand illusions, and free of deceptive delusions. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Pretentiousness quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question How do I look? ~ Haruki Murakami
Pretentiousness quotes by Haruki Murakami
Pretentiousness shares with sophistication a lingering sense of "unnaturalness"; something faked, pretending, tampered with. Litvak presses the idea that sophistication is linked to perversion in the sexual sense, and therefore carries with it a latent homophobic charge. The association of sophistication with a form of urbane and knowing behavior gets reinforced "every time advertising and journalism, loathing as they do the pretentious and the trendy, derisively dangle before their audience the perennially unpopular figure of the snooty (i.e., gay) salesman in the upscale boutique." Pretension implies affectation. People are not acting themselves; rather, their lying urbanity is trampling all over your plain-speaking - and presumably heterosexual - truth. ~ Dan Fox
Pretentiousness quotes by Dan  Fox
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime. ~ Karl Popper
Pretentiousness quotes by Karl Popper
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card. ~ Michael Crichton
Pretentiousness quotes by Michael Crichton
Even after all these years, she still said the word "gig" self-consciously, in the same way that she always said "croissant" with the proper French pronunciation, but with an apologetic, self-deprecating look to make up for her pretentiousness. ~ Liane Moriarty
Pretentiousness quotes by Liane Moriarty
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive. ~ E. M. Forster
Pretentiousness quotes by E. M. Forster
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore. ~ Criss Jami
Pretentiousness quotes by Criss Jami
One should never go by what people say. ~ Agatha Christie
Pretentiousness quotes by Agatha Christie
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. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
Pretentiousness quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
We used to call it the World Wide Web, but at some point the world had dropped out. The wide was gone. It was a narrow web connecting us to those who would never love us back. ~ Rebecca Schiff
Pretentiousness quotes by Rebecca Schiff
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will ; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretentiousness quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook. ~ George Meredith
Pretentiousness quotes by George Meredith
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