Quotes About Arrogance

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

I'm worth far too much money. I don't need anybody's money.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.

Maybe this is what our young doppelgangers failed to understand. They believed their good example would be enough. That being right was enough. They knew nothing about injured pride or the true inertia of human nature.

One of the delights of Marxian-tinged ideas for the young is the unearned sense of superiority they grant.)

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

Every time I see a guy walk out of an over-the-top sports car, I think they need a cold shower.

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Time: her heart wretched. What a useless thing, her mind growled. Only humans would be so arrogant and so stupid as to count down their own deaths.

We only set the clocks back and forth in the arrogant belief we have some influence with almighty Time.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Shocking it is . . . It's what comes of being too handsome.

He is enjoying the situation . . . I can tell. I know his type. Too handsome for his own good. Thinks that he is the answer to every woman's prayer. Thinks he has only to crook a finger to make a woman come running. Thinks he can make me flush and simper and flutter my eyelashes merely by raising that eyebrow. There should be a law that gentlemen can raise only both eyebrows together or none at all. There really should.

You are insufferable, my lord, she seethed. He grinned as he held back her chair while she seated herself. Yes, my lady, I know, he said.

You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.

Did you think you were the only one? Is it possible that you are so arrogant?" he asked, in tones of wonderment. Sandoz was blinking rapidly now. "Did you think you were the only one ever to wonder if what we do is worth the price we pay? Did you honestly believe that you alone, of all those who have gone, were the single man to lose God? Do you think we would have a name for the sin of despair, if only you had experienced it?

I'll take honest arrogance over fake humility any day.