Quotes About Arrogance

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Why are you so stubborn, you little fool? Some one talks business to you, and you hold up your nose. As if nobody in the world was cleverer than you!

Parisians believe they are superior by birth, they do not believe, as Americans do, that they are invulnerable by right.

What foreigners saw as insolence, Britons knew as freedom.

To those who had lived in Africa for millennia, of course, "there was nothing to discover, we were here all the time," as a future African statesman would put it. But to nineteenth-century Europeans, celebrating an explorer for "discovering" some new corner of Africa was, psychologically, a prelude to feeling that the continent was theirs for the taking.

He had all the bushes and trees cut down around his house at Bokatola so that from his porch he could use passersby for target practice. If

Someone once tried to compliment Leopold by saying that he would make "an excellent president of a republic." Scornfully, he turned to his faithful court physician, Jules Thiriar, and asked, "What would you say, Doctor, if someone greeted you as 'a great veterinarian'?" The ruler of a colony would have no parliament to worry about.

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

I've learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated—I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .

There is terror behind haughtiness. It takes a punishing impression of our own inferiority to leave others feeling that they aren't good enough for us.

The forthrightness of the middle-aged seducer is rarely a matter of confidence or arrogance; it is instead a species of impatient despair born of a pitiful awareness of the ever-increasing proximity of death.

The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth.

the obstacle to our good development is not usually arrogance, but a lack of confidence.

An empty cart rattles loudly," she said, meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.

Mankind must without a doubt be the most conceited race in the universe, for who else believes that God has nothing better to do than sit around all day and help him out of tight spots?" It

He still didn't believe we could do it to him, and left with the assured insolence of a credit card presenting itself at the thin mouth of hell.

You Englishmen,' said Herr Wurter. 'You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.