Quotes About Arrogance

Success has ruined many a man.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.

The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

Oh, what is man!' d'Avrigny muttered. 'The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone – an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!

I hate the English--they are coarse, like every nation that swills beer.

Oh, uomo! - mormorò d'Avrigny, - il più egoista di tutti gli animali, la più egocentrica di tutte le creature, che sempre crede che la terra giri, il sole splenda e la morte falci vite soltanto per lui, formica che maledice Dio dall'alto di un filo d'erba!

How typical that is, you proud and self-absorbed creature! This is indeed the man who enjoys taking an axe to the self-esteem of others, but cries out when a needle touches his own.

The Count of Morcerf was no favorite with his colleagues. Like all upstarts, he had had recourse to a great deal of haughtiness to maintain his position.

Oh, o homem (...), o mais egoísta de todos os animais, a mais personalista de todas as criaturas, sempre a acreditar que a terra gira, que o sol brilha, que a morte ceifa só para ele; formiga a amaldiçoar Deus do alto de uma folha de relva!

the pedant who has tried to put on his own head a crown which he stole from under a pillow--of

The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction

The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion of interests, are the dangers which almost invariably arise from the magnitude of States.

They would thus ruin themselves without warming the hearts of the population that surrounds them. It does not ask of them the sacrifice of their money, but of their haughtiness.

For some people, 'erudition' is nothing more than a vehicle for hostility and arrogance; 'good taste' merely an excuse for condescension--or worse, censorship -- Sadie

Patrick had a trick-no, it was not a trick, Patrick had no tricks - Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to know something he did not. His arrogance and humility were both oddly exaggerated.

I look over at him too. For such a little man, he all puff up. Look like all he can do to stay in his chair.

they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.