#pompous

If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#pompous #women #love

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

— Danny Boyle

#i #make #pompous #serious #want

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

— Thomas Browne

#ashes #grave #man #noble #pompous

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing? ↗

— Goldie Hawn

#am #because #book #certain #certain point

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

— Shelley Duvall

#become #boring #events #life #pompous

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

— Peter Jackson

#like #movies #pompous #pretentious

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. ↗

— Peter Cushing

#come #done #fame #famous #got

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. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#because #feel #flash #i #i do

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#believe #camp #caused #clinton #david

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

— Neil Cavuto

#hate #i #people #pompous