Quotes About Arrogance

I'd always rather be a jerk than a loser.

My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything - and I will - but I've been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.

Let's face it: most jerks trying to affect an ascot look like Thurston Howell III.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

Far more, however, has knowledge suffered from littleness of spirit and the smallness and slightness of the tasks which human industry has proposed to itself. And what is worst of all, this very littleness of spirit comes with a certain air of arrogance and superiority.

La soberbia nunca baja de donde sube, porque siempre cae de donde subió.

se te olvide, mi hijito, que mientras más importante te sientas en la vida, más pendejo serás…

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Indeed, some of the Icelandic officials were convinced that Spassky was the better player and that he was going to defeat Fischer rather easily anyway. At the commencement of the match, they were privately expecting to see Fischer humiliated on the board.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.

Children in America drew six-legged chickens because drumsticks came in packs of six, while adults drank milk from a carton, and recoiled at the sight of an udder. Their experience of the world was stunted, but it only fuelled their arrogance.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

At international meetings, Americans and Brits often mistake the extraordinary privilege of being able to speak in their mother tongue for intellectual superiority. Because no one is going to disagree with them in broken English, they are rarely disabused of this notion.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Be nice to everyone on your way to the top because you pass them all on the way down.

The problem was how to attract him to me. What could I offer the one who had gently but firmly turned down the aristocrats and the Caviar? How could I conquer him, entrenched behind barriers of tradition, his natural pride and acquired arrogance?

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.