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Quotes About Arrogance

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.
~ Chelsea Handler
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
~ Christina Stead
Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.
~ David Clement-Davies
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
~ David Duchovny
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him. (Theon Greyjoy)
~ George R. R. Martin
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.
~ George R. R. Martin
A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.
~ Luc de Clapiers
It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
~ Mark Twain
Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
~ Megan Hart
Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
~ Michel de Montaigne
A man may be humble through vainglory.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
~ Michel de Montaigne
You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
~ Robert Harris
The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.
~ Robert Jordan