“Curzon is an intolerable person to do business with—pompous, dictatorial and outrageously conceited…. Really he is an intolerable person, pig-headed, pompous and vindictive too! Yet an able, strong man with it all.”

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.”

“The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid”

“An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. … A person’s right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.”

“People talk about 'my career,' but 'career' is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt very privileged to be paid for what I love doing.”

“The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.”

“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.”

“To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.”