Pretentious Quotes

Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

John Kennedy Toole

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

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

I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?

Ljupka Cvetanova

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

T.J. Kirk

You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.

You’re not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.

If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.