Quotes About Arrogance

Hatred stems from pride because vanity makes us detest and have contempt for anything or anyone who detracts from our importance.

I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, 'Well, it's not my rock.

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.

Während die Starken sich ruhig einmal irren können, ohne etwas zu verlieren, weil selbst die mächtigsten Menschen noch Menschen sind - ja sogar ihre Irrtümer machen sie nur noch menschlicher -, darf sich, wer sich als Allmacht aufspielt, niemals irren, weil es entweder Allmacht ist oder gar nichts.

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

One just had to admire his deluded self-confidence.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

The more ignorant the man, the more he thinks he can grasp. The less he understands, the more he resents being told that there are some things beyond the grasp of his intellect, existences so mighty that he cannot even dream of the lowest of the attributes that mark them out.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

People can call me arrogant, but why should I lie? Of course I feel strong, and of course I am proud as well.

Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)

Because you suffer, why should you so arrogantly include all women in one general reproach?

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I'll show the marks, don't you know.

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen. Always

Oh, the enormous conceit of the man!