Quotes with pompous

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• At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

  Bernard Cornwell
  British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  Barbara Stanwyck
  American actress, model and dancer (1907 - 1990)
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• Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

  William Zinsser
  American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher (1922 - 2005)
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• Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

  Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

  W. M. Thackeray
  Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-conceited
• meaningless
• cominglings
• circular
• embraces
• entering

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