Quotes About Arrogance

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes.

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

To declare that Earth must be the only planet in the universe with life would be inexcusably big-headed of us.

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She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her.

The surest way to get your head blown off is to have it up your ass.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws. —John Adams

El Japón en el que Hiro-Hito alcanzó la edad adulta era un país que admiraba a Occidente por su modernidad al tiempo que se hallaba resentido contra él por su arrogancia. Parecía que, para ser tratado como un igual, Japón tendría que adquirir también el último de los accesorios occidentales: un imperio.

The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

Narcissism is just self-confidence.