Quotes About Arrogance

I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

Vanity is but the surface.

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

He says he can't understand these people. "People who sail through life like the world owes them a living.

Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment. - on Hollywood

Of all the weaknesses that beset a man, vanity is the most deadly. For through vanity can a wise man turn to folly.

It's deplorable that academia should prostitute itself, but there it is. Not even Harvard is above it. In fact, Harvard least of all, with that ludicrous delusion of self-importance that makes every Harvard professor feel he's a public intellectual, qualified to comment on issues far beyond his expertise.

as a shout-out to one of the more unpleasant men who have explained things to me: Dude, if you're reading this, you're a carbuncle on the face of humanity and an obstacle to civilization. Feel the shame.

He was already telling me about the very important book--with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy far horizon of his own authority.

Es la arrogancia lo que lo hace difícil, en ocasiones, para cualquier mujer en cualquier campo; es la que mantiene a las mujeres alejadas de expresar lo que piensan y de ser escuchadas cuando se atreven a hacerlo; la que sumerge en el silencio a las mujeres jóvenes indicándoles, de la misma manera que lo hace el acoso callejero, que este no es su mundo.

he aprendido que cierta cantidad de dudas sobre las propias posibilidades suponen una buena herramienta para corregir, comprender, escuchar y progresar, aunque demasiadas pueden ser paralizantes y la total confianza en uno mismo produce idiotas arrogantes.

He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.

Rhodes, founder of the De Beers diamond company and at one time the virtual dictator of modern-day South Africa, famously declared, "We Britons are the first race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race." Among

Undisguised clarity is easily mistaken for arrogance.

We humans give ourselves such airs, even aggrandizing our poky little 'sins' to the level of cosmic significance!

Overconfidence is a powerful force.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for?

Monoglot, the sign of an enclosed and self-deluding country.

Quarafon; le Vicaire-Général; el Alcalde; el viejo Seigneur; el Idiota de los Salones. Todos estos títulos fueron adquiridos por un hombre que se mostraba indiferente a los tratamientos honoríficos. «Los honores deshonran; el título degrada; el cargo embrutece.»

He was one of those who manage to combine almost total failure with breathtaking arrogance

He wasn't at all what she expected. No: this wasn't true. He was everything she'd expected from everything she'd read about him—he was irritating, frivolous, arrogant, disconcertingly charming. It was just that she would not have suspected his intelligence had depth, that his wit was in part defense, that his charm was a result of, in part, startlingly acute perception and even…grace.

Too much power made people arrogant and unfeeling. It turned them cruel. It blinded them to right and wrong.

Power and wealth too often made folk lose their good judgement. It made them cruel and unthinking.