Top 44 Pompous Quotes

People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better… Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don’t know what we can do to end the madness.

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.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there’s Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.

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

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

Editorial pages all say, ‘Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.’ Cartoonists don’t go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

I’ve gotten a little bit pompous. When I get out in public, I really notice myself looking at my reflections as a I walk though. New York is not a great place for me.

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.

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.

I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don’t think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated – that is something I would find hard to digest.

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.

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.

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

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

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don’t really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I’m certain of love, I guess.

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

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

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.

Opera can be exceptionally moving but can also be pompous.

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

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring.

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

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

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

I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.

People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That’s the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There’s plenty of air around you.

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

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.

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

My basic philosophy is never do anything with the word ‘celebrity’ attached to it. Without being overly pompous, if you have worked hard to have an audience trust you a bit, why blow it? That is my currency.

I never watch TV. I know I’m missing so much, aren’t I? I’m probably not. I can’t stand popular TV. I’ve got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.

One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.

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

It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.

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

While I knew that individuals had in history – and still could – make a difference, it seemed presumptuous – even pompous – to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.

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

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

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

Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like ‘Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn’t want the kids to use the Skateboard Park’, or ‘Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.’ It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as ‘A Man.’

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that’s the way I feel.