Quotes About Arrogance

Qué queríamos cambiar? Nada menos que el mundo, y con la arrogancia de la juventud, pensábamos que se podía hacer en unos diez o quince años.

male vanity goes deeper and is costlier.

Si esprimeva con un tono di tale superiorità che mi tornò in mente l'opinione del maestro Juan Ribero, secondo il quale la vanagloria è prerogativa degli ignoranti; il saggio è umile perché sa di sapere poco.

A deprins astfel s? citeasc? expresia corporal? ÅŸi a descoperit c? nu întotdeauna cuvintele corespund intenÅ£iilor. A priceput c? b?t?uÅŸii sunt îndeobÅŸte uÅŸor de învins, c? cei mai vorb?reÅ£i sunt ÅŸi cei mai puÅ£in sinceri, c? aroganÅ£a e tipic? ignoranÅ£ilor, c? linguÅŸitorii sunt niÅŸte javre.

Pedro y Francisco agradecían la suerte de ser católicos, garantía de salvación del alma, y españoles, es decir, superiores al resto de los mortales. Eran hidalgos de España, soberana del mundo, larga y ancha, más poderosa que el antiguo Imperio romano, señalada por Dios para descubrir, conquistar, cristianizar, fundar y poblar los más remotos rincones de la Tierra.

I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.

That night, faced with the incontrovertible results, Pinochet, hardened by the arrogance of absolute power and cut off from reality by many years of complete impunity, proposed another coup to keep himself on the presidential throne indefinitely.

Manda tu superego al carajo, hombre. Eso de examinar cada acción pasada y presente y de andar flagelándote es una perversión, un pecado de soberbia. No eres tan importante.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

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

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism, without the coxcomb's feathers.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Remember that you are an Englishman and consequently have won first prize in the lottery of life.

Snobbery - the "pox Britannica"

That sovereign of insufferables.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.