Quotes About Arrogance

The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.

for conceit spoils the finest genius.

Wilhelm was bombastic, overbearing, and contemptuous of what he perceived as softness in others. He described Czar Nicholas as "fit only to live in a country house and grow turnips.

Donald Trump is worth I don't know how many millions, but his confident vulgarity will always keep him from being viewed as other than monstrously rich (perhaps more monster than rich), and if he were to be certified as upper class, many others put in that category would doubtless do what they could to find a new social class to fit into.

there is no faculty so weak as the English faculty," which is "the common catch-all for aspirants to the birch who are too lazy or too feeble in intelligence to acquire any sort of exact knowledge, and the professional incompetence of its typical ornament is matched only by his hollow cocksureness." In a passing reference to Emory University he mentions "the students there incarcerated.

They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.

Não me confunde coisa nenhuma. Fico simplesmente irritado por julgarem que não passo de um pateta. Pensam que são espertos e todos nós estúpidos.

Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It

For I was envious of the foolish and arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. PSALM 73:3

I think, Nick snarled, that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.

He even brags about his poops

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

He is suffering from delusions of adequacy.

Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.

Una cosa es el egoísmo moral y el engreimiento insoportable del que se la sabe todas, y otra muy distinta, la autoafirmación y el fortalecimiento de si mismo.

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

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

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.

Give a man an inch and he'll call himself a ruler,

The self-esteem of ignorance ignores wisdom."

our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in.

his association with the Rockefellers had inflated his already healthy sense of self to a point of bloated grandiosity, and