Quotes Tagged With :pomposity

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured....

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter....

...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in....

Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly....

So a while back I spent a night in jail. Now, as for exactly what landed me there, I’d be so delighted....

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter....

he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to ‘ninety k’ and ‘a quarter....

How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from....