Excessive Attention to Detail Quotes

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

Better too much form than too little.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.