Quotes About Arrogance

You know what, lots of people are bothered by how I am. They think I'm arrogant! That is the way I am - I'm a very happy man and I love to make people happy.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.

In Bollywood, once an actor becomes a fairly established name, he or she usually starts taking things for granted.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

No one thinks more highly of me than probably myself. I think that's fine.

No good ever comes of pride, for it is the meanest of mean things, and no one but he who is full of it thinks it grand.

Some human faults are military virtues, like stupidity, and arrogance, and narrow-mindedness.

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.

The following are the principal characteristics of nationalist thought: Obsession. As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit.

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

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La oportunidad es una diosa arrogante que no malgasta el tiempo con los que no están preparados.

And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too

the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too, and the cost of this lie fell on the hearts of the low (Mr.

At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.

Unfortunately, you, Sir Tristram, knowing nothing of me, and being possessed of a tyrannical disposition – I beg your pardon?' 'I did not speak,' replied Sir Tristram, eyeing her frostily. Miss Thane met his look with one of limpid innocence. 'Oh, I quite thought you did!' 'I choked,' explained Sir Tristram. 'Pray continue! You had reached my tyrannical disposition.

My lord consigned the doctor and his words of wisdom to a place of great heat

Sir Nugent knew that Sylvester did not like him, but it never crossed his mind that Sylvester, or anyone else, held him in contempt. If he could have been brought to believe it, he would have known that Sylvester was queer in his attic, and he would have been very much shocked.

I am not interested in you or in your servant!' snapped Miss Taverner. 'That is what I like in you,' he agreed, and sprang lightly up into the curricle, and stepped across her to the box-seat. 'Now let me show you how to hit me.

I doubt it. My lord smiled insufferably.

Live where you choose! It's all one to me. Have you anything more to say?' 'No, I have not, and I should be very happy to think I need never say another word to you for as long as I live – and of all things in the world there is nothing – nothing – so abominable, and contemptible, and cowardly, and ungentlemanly as persons who walk out of the room when one is addressing them!

Indulged almost from the hour of her birth; endowed not only with beauty but with a considerable independence as well; encouraged to think herself a matrimonial prize of the first stare, Tiffany had come to regard every unattached man's homage as her due.