Quotes About Arrogance

The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can't bring down God's house.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

You're only half the man that I am, and I have half the brain that you do.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.