Quotes About Arrogance

Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

Small things make base men proud.

I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.