Quotes About Arrogance

Arrakeen had become an ungenerous place, a contained place, unreasonable and self-righteous in its harsh outlines.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

Tis easy to see they're not used to having anything the way the brag about everything.

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

Sometimes in his arrogance he has more anxiety for the world than for himself.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted. (Wenn es möglich gewesen wäre, den Turm von Babel zu erbauern ohne ihn zu erklettern, es wäre erlaubt worden.)

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position.  They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. 

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.

There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.