Quotes About Arrogance

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

We [England] have become all Billy Big Time and become too big for our boots, and yet we have got nothing to shout about

Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

Even if I am twisted and warped." Raistlin's voice rose with harsh arrogance. "Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

Più la vedeva innocente e la sapeva addolorata più s'impegnava a disprezzarla come fanno i prepotenti per salvarsi interi dal fatto d'aver torto.

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

Clothed as he was in the garments of misfeasance and bewilderment, there lived in him a deeply arrogant man.

Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are some people who delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste.

There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

Dad's "Theory of Arrogance"—that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway play.

Men's pride is situated in their scrotums.

We give meaning to life based on our point of view. Only wisdom, like the light of the candle, can bring us a complete view of existence. The key to wisdom is doubt! If you doubted a little, you would definitely be less arrogant.

She believed that the arrogance of humankind created a deadly irony: in their determination to control nature, human beings posed a growing threat to all life on earth, including their own.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

Teresa blames herself for believing that she was indispensable to Mahmoud. Pride goeth before a fall.

You, sir, are a loathsome swine. Too damn ignorant to pour piss from a boot! Your odor offends me and my shell-like ear gapeth to hear thy screams of pain. I insist you avert your face and serve me a libation before I smite your sorry ass with the tip of my boot — you sniveling little cocksucker!

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

He took such high ground that there was no getting on to it.

No doubt arrogance will produce submission; and there are men who take other men at the price those other men put upon themselves.

Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs

He had never done any good, but he had always carried himself like a duke, and like a duke he carried himself to the end.