Quotes About Arrogance

For a haughty man, all roads lead to arrogance!

For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

Like many faeries she knew, he was sculpture-perfect, but instead of being wrought of shadows like those in her court, this faery had a tangled feel to him. Shadow and radiance. He didn't look much older than her, until she saw the arrogance in his posture. Then, he reminded her of Irial, of Bananach, of Keenan, of the faeries who walked through courts and crowds confident that they could slaughter everyone in the room. Like chaos in a glass cage.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and a single sailor managed to swim to a desert island, would he be pleased to see, ten minutes later, another sailor emerging from the surf? Quite possibly - but only if the new arrival accepted that the first man was now a landed aristocrat while he himself was an illegal immigrant.

As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

T]he beast is not merely "Rome" . . . It is the inhuman, anti-human arrogance of empire which has come to expression in Rome—but not only there . . . All who support the cultural religion, in or out of church, however Lamb-like they may appear, are agents of the beast. All propaganda that entices humanity to idolize human empire is an expression of this beastly power that wants to appear Lamb-like.16

hubris among the winners and humiliation among the losers.

O mérito exerce, em simultâneo, a sua tirania em duas direções. Entre aqueles que acabam por chegar ao topo, induz um perfeccionismo debilitante e uma arrogância meritocrática que luta para ocultar uma auto-estima fragilidade. Entre aqueles que exclui, impõe um desmoralizaste, e mesmo humilhante, sentimento de fracasso.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

language of these intellectually impoverished young people is larded with ready-made phrases. They quote Stalin instead of thinking for themselves; they derive their opinion from Pravda editorials. They are arrogant and complacent, and everything that pertains to them is the greatest thing there is:

This undermines a central tenet of progressivism, that now we're all smart but before everyone used to be dumb (how convenient for us!).

We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked his shyness.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

How the mighty have fallen," he said, looking down on Aten. Ard-Greimne was short and incredibly sensitive about his height. He always wore shoes with lifts in them. When Aten didn't respond, he tried again. "I said, how the mighty—" "It wasn't funny or even clever the first time you said it," Aten said. "Nor is it original.

He'd met Dee briefly and didn't like him; he was one of those arrogant European immortals who thought they were better than anyone else, just because they were older than the United States.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

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.