Quotes About Arrogance

His ability was exceeded only by his belief in his own ability.

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.

He's a bloody idiot who knows nothing about anything, but he was born with a cock, so he gets to decide for all of us.

Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

The stench of self-satisfaction is becoming quite suffocating. If you mean to kill me, blast me to a cinder now and let's be done,

He's still young enough to think that rudeness wins respect.

Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Jezal favoured him with a terse nod and turned away to look up the avenue. He could think of no possible reason why an officer would want to be familiar with the common soldiers. Furthermore, he was scarred and ugly. Jezal had no use whatever for ugly people.

Fear was born of arrogance. Of a belief that everything was not the will of God, and could be changed.

How dare you presume to be devoted to me, peasant? You're like a tick devoted to a tiger!

And the more shrivelled the man, the more swollen his pretensions must

who's-the-biggest-cunt contest, wouldn't you say?" Shivers slowly nodded. "A real arsehole's parade." "But then the arseholes tend to win, don't they?

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

the room. "Now it seems anyone's son can get an education, and a business, and become rich. The merchant guilds: the Mercers, the Spicers and their like, grow steadily in wealth and influence. Jumped-up, posturing commoners dictating to their natural betters. Their fat and greedy fingers, fumbling at the strings of power. It is almost too much to stand." He gave a shudder as he paced across the floor.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

And he paddled away in his douche canoe.

Vanity is of no value

Ezekiel 29:9–10

Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct of insects.

It's the twenty-first-century version of Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake." Let them be present.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.