Quotes by Pedants The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing. Mike Rowe pedants understanding sides A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable. Napoleon Bonaparte pedants fool stupidity I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life. Scott Simon pedants magazines art The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant. Sir Fulke Greville vacant pedants brain He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. Stefan Zweig pedants passion learning A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. Thomas Carlyle dialect pedants stupid Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind. Wilfrid Sheed pedants fans baseball Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins pedants vanity proud To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. William Hazlitt pedants faults writing This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill prepositions pedants type «12
