Quotes Tagged With :pretentious

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That....

I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within....

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.....

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their....

The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent....

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to....

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need....

don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t....

lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were....