Know It All

The author quotes a conversation between Anna Eisenmenger, a middle-class Viennese diarist, and her know-it-all banker. ❋ James Grant (2011)

Benedict XVI does not hide from himself that from the Fraternity for a long time have come many dissonant things - pride, a patronizing know-it-all attitude, unilateralisms etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bert is the quintessential cantankerous old man, a know-it-all with a chip on his shoulder the size of an AARP Magazine cover. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

Me, as a know-it-all elementary school graduate before my soul was crushed in junior high. ❋ Darkerblogistan (2009)

BlackDawgz, not to be a know-it-all, but mitochondrial DNA comes from Mom, not from Dad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not being a know-it-all, just sometimes sexual traits will out themselves! ❋ Unknown (2011)

Soullite: Consider toning down the know-it-all attitude a bit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As I grew, I dismissed the idea as the result of hick ignorance (something that became a habit to a know-it-all college boy ...) and forgot the idea. ❋ Big Jim (2010)

While even I'll admit that sometimes I find him to be a know-it-all, he is one hell of a hunter and fisherman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I suppose I am afraid of coming over as a bossy know-it-all! ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, the loud lady with the pink hair came across as a bit of a know-it-all – but was she really, or was it just an act? ❋ Unknown (2011)

I just end up sounding like a know-it-all nag, one of the only things in the world more annoying than someone sprouting off urban tale nonsense as gospel fact. ❋ Alan Paul (2011)