Quotes About Arrogance

The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I love narcissists-even more than they love themselves. You don't have to buoy them up. They are their own razzle-dazzle show and you are the blessed, favored with a front-row seat.

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

She thought about Susan, who always acted big. In kindergarten there was no worse crime than acting big.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are. That sounds like a pretty good description of the world to me. So

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is essentially being too stupid to appreciate how stupid you are.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That

One of the undoubted virtues of English is that it is a fluid and democratic language in which meanings shift and change in response to the pressures of common usage rather than the dictates of committees. It is a natural process that has been going on for centuries. To interfere with that process is arguably both arrogant and futile, since clearly the weight of usage will push new meanings into currency no matter how many authorities hurl themselves into the path of change.

Pride is corrosive, and it rubs off. You're going to have a tough time developing Christlike humility and thinking of yourself with sober judgment if your close friends are arrogant, full of pride, and looking down their noses at everyone else.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do

throwing his cock around like it was a boomerang.

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

Don't let anybody tell you how great they are. It's all bullshit.