Quotes About Arrogance

I hardened my heart against all the Bennets. - Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.

Her annoyance burned bright. Her neck was still warm and tingling where he'd stroked her, driving home how well he knew a woman's body. Yet he was displeased that she might know a thing or two about how to touch him. The arrogance of it all.

I wanted to turn heads not with lecherous leers of bemusement but with awe. I wanted to become untouchable, cruel, glittery, sleek and haughty as a cat.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

Self-righteousness is the most shameless slut of all.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either science or the public at large.

I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.

After reading the news, I go on Twitter. I don't have an account but I find it interesting - all the different voices, the squabbles, the arrogance of certainty, the ignorance, the occasional, but wonderful, compassion, and watching the evolution of language head towards a new kind of hieroglyphics.

People say that humans are the superior species on this planet because we have minds that are conscious of their own existence, and therefore we have the capacity to create a culture, to create an art. I look at sheep, at peace on the moors, and wonder exactly how much of a delusion are our arrogant souls prepared to share?

Los humanos son una especie arrogante, que se define por su violencia y su avaricia. No se les ha ocurrido otra cosa que conducir a su propio planeta, el único al que ahora mismo tienen acceso, por el camino de la destrucción. Han creado un mundo de divisiones y categorías, y son incapaces de ver las similitudes entre ellos mismos.

The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves.

Remember, during your mission, never to become influenced or corrupted. The humans are an arrogant species, defined by violence and greed. They have taken their home planet, the only one they currently have access to, and placed it on the road to destruction. They have created a world of divisions and categories and have continually failed to see the similarities among themselves. They have developed technology at a rate too fast for human psychology to keep up

It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes

13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Power means never having to say you're sorry.

I think I palsied fate; and I long took pride in this gift.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken. There is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down!