Quotes About Arrogance

It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

As for your sister, don't talk to me about her. I don't care two straws about your sister. You must excuse me, Major Grantly, but Lady Hartletop is really too big for my powers of vision.

He was not a man by any means habitually intemperate, and now any one saying that he was tipsy would have maligned him. But he was flushed with much wine, and he was a man whose arrogance in that condition was apt to become extreme. "In vino veritas!" The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

I saw in myself a leader who was so sure of the brilliance of his own ideas that he couldn't allow brilliance in anyone else's; a leader who felt he was so 'enlightened' that he needed to see workers negatively in order to prove his enlightenment; a leader so driven to be the best that he made sure no one else could be as good as he was.

Wit is educated insolence.

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

the parrots were annoyingly arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that wouldn't make it love you. You could feed it, care for it and exclaim over its loveliness, but there was nothing to guarantee that it would stay home with you. There had to be a lesson there somewhere.

Now a prig is a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom. A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour. A prig is a tedious individual who, having made a discovery, is so impressed by his discovery that he is capable of being gravely displeased because the entire world is not also impressed by it. Unconsciously to become a prig is an easy and a fatal thing.

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

Este hombre tal vez sea muy inteligente, pero, desde luego, es insufriblemente engreído».

In my mind I saw, clearly, that straight-backed figure on the dapple-gray horse, his long black cloak slung back over the animal's haunches, his plumed helm of command on his head. With either phenomenal courage or outright arrogance he had ignored the possibility of our arrows, the crowned sun stitched on his tunic gleaming in the noonday light as he directed the day's battle.

Privately he called them a couple of puffed-up, dressed-up, made-up, stuck-up, brainless parakeets.

to send me away." Why me, she wondered, why me? Am I the public conscience? Expected always to say in cold words what the rest of them are too arrogant to recognize? Am I supposed to be the weakest

You're just a young doctor! Where do you come off having a waiting line? If you continue this way, you hear, you're going to have troubles, not a practice.

I just hate their guts. I can't stand those rich big-shots. Spiders and rich men! May God not punish me.

Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.

There had been a time when he would have thought this serendipity happened because God was on his side. Now he sees the arrogance of that thought.

One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.

Nul n'est plus arrogant à l'égard des femmes, agressif ou dédaigneux, qu'un homme inquiet de sa virilité.

Likewise, the most mediocre of males believes himself a demigod next to women.

If the question of women is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a quarrel; when people quarrel, they no longer reason well.

No one is more arrogant, more aggressive or more disdainful towards women, than a man who is fearful for his masculinity.

Le plus médiocre des mâles se croit en face des femmes un demi-dieu.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.