pedant quotes

Clear Cymric voices carry well this Autumn night, Aneurin and Taliesin, cruel owls for whom it is never altogether dark before the rules made poetry a pedant's game.

- Basil Bunting
  Briggflatts.

He that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered hishousetosale, carried a brick inhis pocket as a specimen.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of Shakespeare. Plays of  William Shakespeare, preface.

A fertile pedant.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
Of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Quoted in NicholasT ParsonsTheJoy of BadVerse (1988).