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Quotes About Arrogance

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Self-praise is no recommendation.
~ Old saying
Pride is seldom delicate: it will please itself with very mean advantages.
~ Samuel Johnson
Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.
~ Thomas Fuller
Pride ruined the angels.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The proud hate pride - in others.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
~ Bible
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
~ Voltaire
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune.
~ Harvey Oxenhorn
The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
~ Kenneth Grahame
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~ Emily Bronte
The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world.
~ Marie de France
God hates those who praise themselves.
~ St. Clement
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
~ Peter Ustinov
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
~ John Buchan
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
~ Brander Matthews
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
~ Bible
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
~ Mary Waldrip
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
~ Bible
When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."
~ Bennett Cerf, c.1950
Iz iskustva je znao kako štetni, i po društvo i pojedinca opasni mogu biti ljudi koji zbog svoje ograni?enosti neograni?eno veruju u svoju pamet i pronicjivost i u ta?nost svakog svog suda i zaklju?ka.
~ Ivo Andri?
Kud sam ja sve lutao? Kud su padale moje teznje, koliko posrtao, koliko bludio u mislima i grijesio u zivotu! - Kako da vam kazem kad to i rodjeno moje sjecanje zaboravlja! Oholost me je nosila kao vjetar. Oganj kojim mi je sagarala dusa nije me izjedao nego mi je davao snagu i zamah. Na borbe svijeta ja sam gledao kao sto se s vedra visa gleda na magle koje se nadvijaju po dolinama. Bio sam nijemi, oholi gost zivota.
~ Ivo Andri?
The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Is there any exceptionally beautiful woman you haven't slept with? I'll make you a list. So, you knocked her down.
~ J.D. Robb