Quotes About Arrogance

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

They didn't come to crush the city. They came to crush the hubris of its king." "That must have hurt," Oates said. Umber pinched the bridge of his nose. "Hubris means arrogance, you great buffoon.

I am blessed to live in a democracy, not a totalitarian state. But the democracy I cherish is constantly threatened by a brand of politics that clothes avarice and the arrogance of power in patriotic and religious garb.

If you want to stay here, that's something different. But thinking that you are the only one who can possibly keep her company - that's a trap." (p. 320)

I seem to be annoyed not only with Colette, but with the frame of mind I have inherited along with her—the postmodern pride of calling things by their names, the arrogance of assuming integrity is a matter of being more and more open. Or simply that a label, firmly affixed, is honesty in the face of euphemism and discretion.

Soy Abush! ¡Hijo de un millar de reyes de la antigüedad! ¡Heredero de los sagrados montes y valles y de las gloriosas bestias que los habitan! ¿¡Qué derecho tienes a proferir tan arrogantes exigencias!? ¿¡Quién te crees que eres, niño!? -Soy Robin. Hijo de Batman. ¡Y no te hace falta saber nada más!

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Most Gods don't care. About anything. Other than gaining dominance over other Gods and telling you how wonderful they are and demanding that you say the same. There's nothing like a bunch of Gods to show you how alone you really are.

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

Ambrose turned on his heel and stormed off, but before he made it through the door, Elodin burst out singing: 'He's a well-bred ass, you can see it in his stride! And for a copper penny he will let you take a ride!

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

El orgullo es absurdo, pero es una fuerza poderosa.

You would be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

El orgullo es el lujo de los fuertes.

Because you are too eager to be properly patient," he said flippantly. "You're too proud to listen properly. And you're too clever by half. That's the worst of it.

but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

If there is one thing I will not abide, it is the folly of a willful pride.

Porque eres demasiado entusiasta para tener la paciencia necesario -me contestó con ligereza-. Eres demasiado orgulloso para escuchar como es debido. Y eres demasiado listo. Eso es lo peor

I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

Tombs is for feckless tits who can't chew their own food,

You'd be amazed at how similar arrogance and confidence look at first glance.

pride is the luxury of the strong.

But pride is the luxury of the strong.