Quotes About Arrogance

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

You and I have a problem, Ronin. You think you're working alone, that we all exist here to shine a spotlight on you and your crusades. You've disrespected me and now, by arresting Towler at our front door, you've disrespected everybody in this building and possibly in the entire department.

She's suffered much worse than that," Duncan said. "Take a good, hard look at her." All heads turned to Eve. "She's only twenty-six years old. She's bruised, scarred, and filled with bird shot. How many times has she been in the hospital in the last five months? How many of her bones has she broken? She's paying a steep price for her bad decisions and is too arrogant and self-destructive to realize it.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

in a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance, it can be hard to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles.

In a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be difficult to stay true to one's philosophical and literary principles." VFD

Rich young troublemakers. The western world is full of such people.

Peter was like that: he had the capacity for cruelty that comes so easily to the self-righteous.

Men have always shown greed," Anne continued. "They spread your legs and plant their seed, then pick their nose on the pillow and fart. Your common fool will prove no different.

Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

131: My heart is not proud, G. I am never haughty. Except maybe now, when I'm explaining how very humble I am.

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing — for she had done mischief.

El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.