Quotes About Arrogance

Bug?" Jenks shouted, incensed. "You sack of sweat stink. I've got farts that smell sweeter than you. Think you're better than me? Poop ice cream cones, do you?

Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.

Lyall felt he could not say which of two things was harder to put up with, the Abbot's conversational style, with its bland coherence and assumption of severely limited cogitative powers in the hearer, or his recurrent look of pleased surprise as each fresh piece of evidence of his wisdom or moral worth turned up, but between them they were likely to implant in certain minds a hardy seed of revolt.

Obviously, I need to leave," she said, while thinking, Tell me I'm your Bride, and that I will be staying. Be an arrogant, possessive Neanderthal vampire! She wanted him to simply inform her that he would never let her go and she would just have to accept that, or whatever

Fools dwelling in darkness, wise in their own conceit, are puffed up with vain knowledge, go round and round, staggering to and fro, like blind men led by the blind.

these people believe that they are the doctors of society, whereas in fact they are only the disease.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge.

The more stupid one is the more he thinks he knows.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed the shaggy man.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.

The only crime is pride.

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.