Quotes About Arrogance

The pride that prides itself on freedom from pride is the hardest of all to bear.

La vanidad que se exalta bajo capa de modestia es la más insoportable de todas.

There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.

No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people—even for caring about them—for that, yes.

for a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable.

There is no fool like an educated fool...

It's always an imprudence to step between a man and the reflection of his own cleverness.

Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

The memos that came from above telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him because they'd been dictated by semi-literates; all they proved was that no one at AnooYou was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement?

Of course she was very beautiful. It was claimed she'd come out of an egg, being the daughter of Zeus who'd raped her mother in the form of a swan. She was quite stuck-up about it, was Helen. I wonder how many of us really believed that swan-rape concoction?

Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold. Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time.

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

Ted Bundy waving to the camera while the charges against him are being read. He told reporters, "I will be heard!

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!