Top Pretentious Quotes

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.

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

Pretentious Definition

(a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

What I don't like are pompous, pretentious movies.

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 l...

He walked to the top of a rise and crouched and watched the day accrue. The chary dawn, the cold illucid world.

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