Quotes About Arrogance

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.

she at once put on an extremely arrogant demeanour instead of the modest gait and bearing proper to the gentle sex," the Gesta's author complained, "began to walk and speak and do all things more stiffly and more haughtily than she had been wont, to such a point that soon, in the capital of the land subject to her, she actually made herself queen of all England and gloried in being so called.

comfort in the blithe superiority that is the refuge of the small.

She smiled at him. It was her special smile. Her please go away you piece of sub-proletarian turd smile.

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

He was in way over his head... We're held accountable for our stupidity & moral ignorance... Arrogant condescension...suffering from self-hatred which comes along with a terrible nostalgia for the way we imagine things were, the nostalgia of defeat...breeds tyrants... He can hold his liquor, I'll give him that. It's a generational skill,...indicative of a pathology.

A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

The line between confidence and arrogance can be not only thin but also vague.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

That debauchery was not a good thing in a married man did not even occur to him [Tsar Nicholas I], and he would have been very surprised if anyone had condemned him for it. But, even though he was convinced that he had acted as he ought, he was left with some sort of unpleasant aftertaste, and, to stifle that feeling, he began thinking about something that always soothed him: about what a great man he was.

Yes, what would Russia be without me?" he [Tsar Nicholas I] said to himself, again sensing the approach of the unpleasant feeling. "Yes, what would, not just Russia, but Europe be without me?" And he remembered his brother-in-law, the king of Prussia, and his weakness and stupidity and shook his head.

Elena Pavlovna was for him [Tsar Nicholas I] the personification of those empty people who talked not only about science and poetry, but also about governing people, imagining that they could govern themselves better than he, Nicholas, governed them.

This ideal of glory and grandeur--which consists not merely in considering that nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime once commits.

It is pride that makes error and discord among men.

Said He, whoever exalts himself, shall be humbled, and he who is humbled shall become exalted.

He was a very stupid and very self-satisfied and very healthy and very well-washed man, and nothing else.

German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth—science—which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

Pride is a fool's fortress

Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.