Quotes About Arrogance

Do you imagine that the poisonous spittle of five hundred little men of your sort, hoisted on to each other's shoulders, could even drool down on to the tips of my august toes?

whose inferiority proclaimed her own supremacy so loud...

Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence...

machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on her features, would provide Françoise with matter for a mental commentary as tense with passion and terror, as did the silence, the good

Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines—as well as upon works!

Rodin's art 'was not based upon any great idea, but upon the conscientious realisation of something small, upon something capable of achievement, upon a matter of technique. There was no arrogance in him, he devoted himself to this insignificant and difficult aspect of beauty which he could survey, command and judge. The other, the greater beauty must come when all was ready for it as animals come to drink when night holds sway and the forest is free of strangers.

Pride moves us to bow down before a mirror rather than before God.

And those who pretend to be teachers of others, and yet despise his teaching assistance, will one day find that they undertook a work which was none of theirs.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I've met a lot of people in the diplomatic corps who were in love with the sound of their own voice, but this guy. He and his voice should just get a room.

Moeller also immediately discounted insults about competence, as the incompetent never question their competence about anything.

The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.

Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.

And every fall a great number of men set out to prove that without talent, training, knowledge, or practice they are dead shots with rifle or shotgun. The results are horrid.

With a pleasantness that amounts to arrogance he says, Hi.

But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

America can no longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. We can no longer exempt ourselves from the global family of concern.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

It appears there's a little too much chlorine in their gene pool.

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.