Quotes About Arrogance

Your Grace," he said, when he and Cersei were alone, "I was wondering. Are you drunk, or merely stupid?

Men are such thundering great fools. Even the sort who come along once in a thousand years.

But peasant's pride is lordling's shame.

Sólo un tonto se humilla a sí mismo, habiendo tantos hombres en el mundo dispuestos a encargarse de esa tarea

Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!

That was his mistake, the false humility of youth that is itself a sort of pride.

Small men curse what they cannot understand.

Wise men may grow arrogant in their wisdom, but a maester must always remain humble.

The contents of my chamber pot are more able than Ser Harys.

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions or dragons or eagles. I can take you to a real lion, my little friend. The prince keeps a pride in his menagerie. Would you like to share a cage with them?

Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance. He never seemed ill at ease, and even when he did not speak the language, he had ways of making himself understood.

Csak a bolond alacsonyítja le magát, amikor tele a világ olyanokkal, akik szívesen megteszik ezt helyette.

In his experience, entities that spoke in such a high-toned manner tended to have an acute regard for themselves that was inversely matched by a lack of concern for the comfort of those who minioned for them—indeed, even for their continued existence.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

[Self-]assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to sympathize with their proper needs nor humility enough to respect them as if they were his own. Arrogance, fanaticism, meddlesomeness, and imperialism may then masquerade as philanthropy.

To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.

And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!" "No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.

The insolence of office.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.