Quotes About Arrogance

Roy might know who James Joyce is, I'm not sure, but it wouldn't matter. You mention books to Roy and he thinks you're trying to act superior.

He [Eugène Rougon] believed exclusively in himself; where another saw reasons, Rougon possessed convictions; he subordinated everything to the incessant aggrandisement of his own ego. Despite being utterly devoid of real self-indulgence, he nevertheless indulged in secret orgies of supreme power.

There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of old whose lairs were littered with bones, she was walking on skulls and surrounded by cataclysms.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

Los soberbios no hacen más que dañarse a sí mismos.

Los soberbios dan pábulo a las propias penas.

Las personas orgullosas no hacen más que atormentarse a sí mismas.

Os orgulhosos provocam suas próprias tristezas.

might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America.

Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and punish the most insignificant offenses, while maintaining themselves by the greatest of all offenses, the annihilation of individual liberty.

Le patriotisme […] est une superstition créée artificiellement et entretenue par tout un réseau de mensonges et de faussetés ; une superstition qui enlève à l'homme tout respect pour lui-même et toute dignité, et accroît son arrogance et son mépris. En effet, mépris, arrogance et égoïsme sont les trois éléments fondamentaux du patriotisme.

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you,scoffed Opal.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

Confidence is ignorance," advised the centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

centaur. "If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something

Artemis kneep in de brug van zijn neus. 'Je hebt natuurlijk gelijk. Ik ben hier het meesterbrein. Het denkwerk is mijn verantwoordelijkheid, niet de jouwe.' Holly keek hem met samengeknepen ogen wantrouwend aan. 'Was dat een belediging, Modderjongen?

Hello there, young man. Would you like to see the children's menu?" A vein pulsed in Artemis's temple. "No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know

These reasonings are unconnected: I am richer than you, therefore I am better; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better. The connection is rather this: I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours; I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours. But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

There are two things that must be rooted out in human beings - arrogant opinion and mistrust. Arrogant opinion expects that there is nothing further needed, and mistrust assumes that under the torrent of circumstance there can be no happiness.

REST.—If a man should be able to assent to this doctrine as he ought, that we are all sprung from God in an especial manner, and that God is the father both of men and of gods, I suppose that he would never have any ignoble or mean thoughts about himself. But if Cæsar (the emperor) should adopt you, no one could endure your arrogance; and if you know that you are the son of Zeus, will you not be elated?