Quotes About Arrogance

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Oh Lord... I don't really do pride.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.

Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

I think scientific arrogance really does give a great degree of distrust. I think people begin to think that scientists like to believe that they can run the universe.