Quotes About Arrogance

Males always have something pathetic about them, at every age. A fragile arrogance, a frightened audacity. I no longer know, today, if they ever aroused in me love or only an affectionate sympathy for their weaknesses.

Tiene miedo, dijo, siempre fue así; tiene miedo de las enfermedades y la muerte. Giannì, todas las personas soberbias, todas las que se lo tienen muy creído hacen como si la muerte no existiera.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Those who take thinking seriously have a serious problem—ignorance and arrogance commingle.

She certainly carried that arrogance with her at dinner, and again when she dropped off the transparencies. He was surprised to hear that she'd crumbled so publicly, but then again, those kinds of people were often more fragile than they seemed. Harder, but more brittle.

Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

Ylimielisyys on lyhytikäinen elätti.

A person who considers oneself even remotely equal to omnipresent God is either a wicked or a stupid.

A person who says something good and shows own face alongside it, means nothing good for others but just seeks praise for oneself from the people.

A person who speaks out often the thoughts with the word 'YOU' seems to be in some sort of baseless hue of superiority that s/he has an authority to give all an advice & they have to think her/him as wise.

A self-seeker may resist anything except the temptation of showing often own bigger face beside everything that s/he says as big thoughts.

Bumptious people talk big words only till they are able to show often their face along with it for merely own praise.

Fools believe that their power lies in their left index fingernail.

One who enjoys own luxurious lifestyle by being idle but bumptiously loves to preach others about the importance of hard work through lengthy, empty speech publicly, is the most ideal person to be in politics.

The confidence should reach to the height of the heart only to speak out from the mouth; but the moment the same sentence goes up to the level of head, it becomes the arrogance.

When a bumptious person addresses the public from the dais, he ensures to have a big photo of oneself in the background and often all around own picture posters or cut-outs in the auditorium or on the street and ground.

His sin, indeed, had been Pride. And the pride was still there, nowhere more apparent than in his inability to come face to face with himself.

There is nothing so irritating as the man who is always coming in and informing all and sundry that he has repaired his sledge, or built a wall, or filled the cooker, or mended his socks.

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

What avails your wealth, if it makes you arrogant to the poor?

What serious airs the rascal puts on! Look! His legs are already shrieking "oh! oh!" They are asking for shackles and wedges.

Wit is well-bred insolence.

I think I underestimated you," Keane said. And there it was. The light bulb had come on in his head and he was staring at me. I'd messed up. Arrogance was always my worst enemy.