Quotes About Arrogance

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

La independencia prematura es la hija de la vanidad

El hombre más estúpido que he conocido, tenía un dicho favorito. Era: "¿Qué te crees que soy: estúpido... o qué?

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

Arrogance is blindness.

Only a fool will try and take over this world.

The biggest mistake we humans make is thinking we rule it all, when in fact, we rule nothing.

However, throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. For my part, I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

His generals were ready; his sons were. It remained to be seen whether the Arab nations were ready to meet them in war. In their arrogance, they had invited annihilation.

Ostentatious," he sniffed, slipping into

Nessuno è di fronte alle donne più arrogante, aggressivo e sdegnoso dell'uomo malsicuro della propria virilità

We live as emotional transients in a world of isolation. Oh, if I could only borrow back so many wasted moments, but only the arrogant have no regrets; so much is paid for with borrowed time. The infant road, the child's path, in the rising tide of the day, is the aged road the dying path, in the dusk where mortals play.

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

Wartihog put up his hand. "What happens if we can't read, sir?" "No boasting, Wartihog!" boomed Gobber. "Get some idiot to read it for you.

Tendré un sitio entre los monstruos de la humanidad. Me quieren altiva, imperiosa, vengativa y fanática...Se podría añadir orgullosa hasta el punto de no poder decidirme a defenderme cuando sería tan fácil, porque prefiero la calumnia a rebajarme hasta mis calumniadores. Elena de Montijo

A fellow with the smallest mind is the one who is usually most willing to give someone a piece of it.

Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.

People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.

If I don't get the right vibes from a person, I will not speak to him or her and I guess that comes across as arrogance.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.