Quotes About Arrogance

pre-Islamic period jahiliyyah, which is usually translated as "the time of ignorance." But the primary meaning of the root JHL is "irascibility"—an acute sensitivity to honor and prestige, excessive arrogance, and, above all, a chronic tendency to violence and retaliation.4

Beth grimaced. "He is a pompous ass." "And in dire need of a wealthy wife. Perhaps you should find a twitch to go with your stutter." "I would fall upon the floor in a fit if I thought it might do some good. The man is a menace.

Dash was a stupid man's idea of how a smart man sounded.

He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened he turned and saw bike number two impact the side of the battleship, crumpling its hull and spreading a mushroom of flame that lit a name painted on the metal hull: Arrogance.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

When we play the part of a great man too much, we seem very small.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Surfeit begets insolence, when prosperity comes to a bad man.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.