A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
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.
Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
