Quotes Tagged With :pretentious

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

Never trust someone that claims they care nothing of what society thinks of them. Instead of conquering....

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

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In....

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

I'm tired of 'pretentious' just being used as an excuse to dismiss anything that fucking expects you....

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

Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting....

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed....