Quotes About Arrogance

I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

You live that long, things start happening to you. You get too impressed with yourself. Ends up, you think you're God. Suddenly the little people, thirty, maybe forty years old, well, they don't really matter anymore. You've seen whole societies rise and fall, and you start to feel you're standing outside it all, and none of it really matters to you. And maybe you'll start snuffing those little people, just like picking daisies, if they get under your feet.

What a goddamn egomaniac. King Bullet is one prancing show pony show-off.

Young vampires are all assholes. It's part of their job description.

When she leaves I look from Daja to the Magistrate. "I think your pet monkey is getting tired. Why don't you throw it a banana and send it home?

Never underestimate the power of stupid

What she was hearing, Caroline knew, was a lifetime of frustration and moral passion, based on a single, diamond-hard belief: that the death penalty was tainted by human failings too profound to cure, and that imposing it was an act of arrogance which diminished our humanity.

They're too busy building monuments to themselves.

You will see that when it comes to the masses, the stupider the individual, the more they want to prove it to the world.

Every basketball wimp needs a lesson, and you seem to think you're somewhere above your true station in life.

People who think their shit is gold suffer unusually high rates of hepatitis B.

Proud men are the devil's pipes, and flatterers the musicians to blow these pipes.

When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness, meet together in men, it renders them odious to God, burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, disturbers of better purposes, intractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue. Where Christ shows his gracious power in weakness, he does it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnify God's love to such as they are.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

You've given some pretty convincing arguments, but you're still a long way from winning me over." "I haven't even really tried," he said, in a rare moment of arrogance. "When I want to, I can be very persuasive." "Yeah? Prove it." His lips moved toward mine. "I was hoping you'd say that.

You sure have a high opinion of yourself, thinking it's going to happen again.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are.

I look and smell,' Aunt Sponge declared, 'as lovely as a rose!

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

One could almost hear him saying, 'It's me! Here I come, the great man himself, the master of the house, the wage-earner, the one who makes it possible for the rest of you to live so well! Notice me and pay your respects!