Quotes About Arrogance

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

In all my life, the most arrogant people that I've known have been the most sensitive. The people who have done the most in contempt of other people's opinion, and who consider themselves the highest above it, have been the most furious if it went against them. Arrogant and domineering people can't stand the least, lightest, faintest breath of criticism. It just kills them.

For, although Georgie's pomposities and impudence in the little school were often almost unbearable, the teachers were fascinated by him. They did not like him—he was too arrogant for that—but he kept them in such a state of emotion that they thought more about him than they did about all of the other ten pupils. The emotion he kept them in was usually one resulting from injured self-respect

They had become too conceited to be capable of normal human feelings.

He had a very young man's belief in the absolute rightness of his own cause and the absolute wrongness of everyone else's.

Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

He carried himself like a man who liked to fuck and knew he did it well. That subtle sexual arrogance.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

Si uno hace algo incorrecto en la mesa con cierta arrogancia, como si supiera perfectamente que está haciendo lo que corresponde, puede salir del paso y nadie pensará que es grosero o que ha recibido una pobre educación. Pensarán que uno es original y muy ocurrente.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty

But Doctor Gordon wasn't like that at all. He was young and good-looking, and I could see right away he was conceited.

I never really liked Buddy Willard. He thought he knew everything. He thought he knew everything about women...

Eu havia descoberto, depois de muita ansiedade de quais talheres usar, que se você fizer algo de errado à mesa com certa arrogância, como se você soubesse perfeitamente que aquele é o jeito certo de fazer as coisas, ninguém vai achar que você é grosseira ou mal-educada. Vão pensar que você é original e muito espirituosa.

if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

You dog!" she said, so loud that half the crowded tavern turned to watch. "A few days past the walls of the inner keep and you think your pizzle has turned to solid silver? At least when Nevin Hewney falls asleep on top of a girl, drooling and farting and limp as custard, he doesn't pretend he's done her a favor.

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.

Pride is something only folk with money can afford.

You come from a race that spends more time murdering your own kind than do all the immortals put together, yet you insist you are better than us.

It had occurred to me I was not courageous, had never been brave, only arrogant or unthinking.

As Paul wrote, a love that is patient, showing no jealousy or arrogance, keeping no record of wrong, not seeking its own and not provoked by another's behavior. These are the evidences of true love which flows from those who know the Father and His limitless love for them.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.