41 Quotes About Pretentiousness
- Author Criss Jami
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I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
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- Author F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Oh, he was a pretentious fool, making careers out of cocktails and meanwhile regretting, weakly and secretly, the collapse of an insufficient and wretched idealism. He had garnished his soul in the subtlest taste and now he longed for the old rubbish. He was empty, it seemed, empty as an old bottle —
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- Author Cato
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The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
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- Author Tiffany Madison
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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.
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- Author Audur Ava Olafsdottir
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It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla.”“Has he had anything published?”“Not yet.
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- Author Stephen Fry
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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…
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- Author Criss Jami
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A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
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- Author Ahmed Mostafa
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You shattered the remainder of my heart, yet you expect me to be okay with it day after day.
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- Author Niedria Dionne Kenny
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His arrogance is going to bury whatever parts of him which survived the death of his pretentiousness.
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