Quotes About Arrogance

Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious. Weep not for me but for thy children.

You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—

The club motto was To Toot One's Own Horn is Unattractive.

King Lear, having been in power for decades, can no longer hear anything but flattery, banishing the one person—his own daughter Cordelia—who dares to speak to him truthfully.

How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!

Comme d'usage, le Dictateur se trompe.

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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of Wise Blood that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote Perhaps I am prematurely arrogant . . .

You act like you think you got wiser blood than anybody else," he said, "but you ain't! I'm the one has it. Not you. Me." Haze didn't say anything. He stood there for an instant, small in the

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

A lot of fighters are cocky.

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.

You definitely need self-belief and confidence, but there is a very fine line between that and arrogance. I would like to think I sit on the other side of that.