Quotes About Arrogance

This is an empire called "narcissism.

Mark Sykes exemplified another characteristic common among the British ruling class of the Edwardian age, a breezy arrogance that held that most of the world's messy problems were capable of neat solution, that the British had the answers to many of them, and that it was their special burden—no less tiresome for being God-given—to enlighten the rest of humanity to that fact.

Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

Such audacity could never be faked—Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain.

You refused to believe that I preserved your life in Tal Verrar for reasons of conscience. Now I give you the self-interested motive you previously insisted upon, and you refuse to believe it as well. Are you really that arrogant, that logic is as optional as a fashion accessory for you?

Convenient targets include our "pointy-haired bosses" whom we believe are barely competent enough to tie their own shoes, the "paper-pushing fools" in the department down the hall from us that demand excessive amounts of documentation, and our "stupid users" who often don't know what they want, and when they do tell us what they want, it never makes sense anyway. Naturally, we never blame ourselves; we're perfect after all.

How can I possibly reveal the magnificence of the gospel when I'm showcasing the arrogance of my annoyance?

Every time I think you've reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant.

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldnt accept losing that time slot.

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

As near as I can make out, geniuses think they know it all, and so they won't take people's advice, but always go their own way, which makes everybody forsake them and despise them, and that is perfectly natural. If they was humbler, and listened and tried to learn, it would be better for them.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.—[See

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.