Quotes About Arrogance

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *

They took it, too, like Napoleon's soldiers. And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. *

And they had the Jews and the Negroes to look down on, more and more. The M.M.'s saw to that. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

He liked Ross Ireland; he found particularly amusing, very like his own cultural pretenses, the fact that since Ireland was totally unable to learn any language save Iowan, he thundered that English was enough to take anybody anywhere and that these fellows that talk about your having to know French if you're going to do political stuff in Europe are just trying to show what smart guys they are.

He was irritated by her self-election to superiority; he was bothered by her desire to have this new suitor consider her superior.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

The only crime is pride.

For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

La insolencia produce al tirano.

Destaca-se a prudência sobremodo como a primeira condição para a felicidade. Não se deve ofender os deuses em nada. A desmedida empáfia nas palavras reverte em desmedidos golpes contra os soberbos que, já na velhice, aprendem afinal prudência.

Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too ... such men, I tell you, spread them open - you will find them empty

Now don't, please, be quite so single-minded, self-involved, or assume the world is wrong and you are right. Whoever thinks that he alone possesses intelligence, the gift of eloquence, he and no one else, and character too... such men, I tell you, spread them open-you will find them empty.

The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I don't get along with people who think they know everything and everyone.

If we break someone's ego, then we can't be happy. Egoism is his life!

Arrogance kills Creativity, Curiosity and Passion. Stop it and you'll learn more.

There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.

An old, and haughty nation proud in arms.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts.

I cannot waste time in these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.