Pretentious quotes
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities."
"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."
"America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious."
"I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular."
"If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is."
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"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."
"I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do."
"Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?"
"You live for pretentious metaphors."
"Alan Rickman, who was mentored me a lot. He was very keen to offer his opinions on stuff. Not in a pretentious way. Not in a patronizing way."
