Quotes About Arrogance

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

A vaidade e o orgulho são coisas diferentes, embora as palavras sejam frequentemente usadas como sinónimos. Uma pessoa pode ser orgulhosa sem ser vaidosa. O orgulho relaciona-se mais com a opinião que temos de nós mesmos, e a vaidade, com o que desejaríamos que os outros pensassem de nós.

Grandeur I detest.

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity towhat we would have others think of us.

mezcla de orgullo y servilismo, petulancia y modestia.

Mr. Collins and Lizzy. Lizzy declares she will not have Mr. Collins, and Mr. Collins begins to say that he will not have Lizzy. And what am I to do on the occasion?—It seems an hopeless business.

His coming into the country at all is a most insolent thing, indeed, and I wonder how he could presume to do it. I pity you, Miss Eliza, for this discovery of your favourite's guilt; but really, considering his descent, one could not expect much better.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals." (10)

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

I will say - and not to sound arrogant - people would have been upset if I failed my cash-in. Yeah, it would not have been a good move. I didn't really think that was going to happen, but you never know. It's always a possibility.

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

Failure has gone to his head.

Steve Bannon puts himself above everything.

I don't think I've become arrogant. I'm pretty much the same person. I think the world has changed. I think I'm pretty consistent. Because you stick to what you believe does not make you arrogant.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.