Quotes About Arrogance

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.

It may make him overconfident. He may make foolish errors.

If it pleases you to think so of yourself,Gregori,that's fine with me. You are arrogant enough for several males; you don't need me to feed you compliments.

Desari reached up to trace his lips. You have a perfect mouth, Julian. An amazingly perfect mouth. He arched an eyebrow at her. Just my mouth is amazing? You are such a man. Her eyes laughed at him. You need constant reassurance that you are magnificent. He nodded. Magnificent.I like that. I could live with magnificent. Good choice of words,lifemate. She circled his neck with her arms. Arrogant male. Darius is right, you know.You are incredibly arrogant. But deservedly so, he pointed out.

You are a good man, Mikhail." She grinned impishly, her blue eyes teasing. "You just have too much power for your own good. But don't worry, I know this American girl. She's very disrespectful, and she'll take all that arrogant starch out of you.

Every soldier needs a commander and it looks like I'm yours. You're a soldier. You need a commander. What makes you the boss? I'm bigger than you are, Draden said, his voice just a little arrogant. Shylah refrained from answering. What was the point? He was bigger.

Raven." The voice was warm, sensual, caressing. Calm in the eye of the storm. Black velvet. Beautiful. Soothing. She knew that voice at once. A curious hush fell in the dining room as Mikhail strode in. He had a hard arrogance about him, an air of complete command. He was tall, dark, well muscled, but it was his eyes, burning with energy, with darkness, with a thousand secrets, that drew immediate attention. Those eyes could mesmerize, hypnotize, just like the power in his voice.

You are well? Yes, Jacques. I'm sorry I didn't check in. She made an effort to stay calm and hide her alarm from him. The last thing she wanted was for the wild man to attempt to rescue her. And she knew he would. He would kill himself trying to get to her side. You are in the sun. I feel your discomfort. It was a reprimand of the sort she was becoming used to. The arrogance of command was creeping more and more into his voice as his health improved.

Why do you force what I would have given, had you simply asked? She held her breath, feeling his puzzlement. I am sorry, little one. I am used to getting my way with the least amount of effort. Even at the expense of simple courtesy? Sometimes it is more expedient. She punched the pillow. You need to work on your arrogance. Simply because you possess power does not mean you have to flaunt it.

You need to mention what a great lover I am. Men need to hear these things." "Really?" She arched an eyebrow at him. "I don't dare. You're already as arrogant as I can stand." "You are crazy about me. I know. I read minds." He suddenly grinned mischievously, like a little boy.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will provide plenty of time for silence.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics

Even the constantly reiterated insistence that we are miserable offenders, born in sin, is a kind of inverted arrogance: such vanity, to presume that our moral conduct has some sort of cosmic significance, as though the Creator of the Universe wouldn't have better things to do than tot up our black marks and our brownie points.

Por mais impiedoso e arrogante que o poder possa parecer, seus detentores são meros mamíferos que evacuam e anseiam e que sofrem de insônia e insegurança. Esses mamíferos são também necessariamente vaidosos ao extremo e muitas vezes desejam ser amados tanto quanto desejam ser temidos.

There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.

All of these things cater to our inborn stupidity, and our willingness to be persuaded against all the evidence that we are indeed the center of the universe and that everything is arranged with us in mind.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.

Have you never met anyone who works in a record store? There is no greater repository of unjustified arrogance in the world.

but no one is more heavily burdened than a guy who thinks he knows a thing.

The powerful hold nothing but contempt for those who toady to them, all but the toadies know this.