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Quotes About Superiority

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
My second thought was, I'm prettier than her.
~ Jenny Han
Compared to you, everyone else is saltines. Even Cam. And I hate saltines. You know that.
~ Jenny Han
I don't think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don't you forget it.
~ Jenny Han
The most striking characteristic is the combination of slavish devotion and intellectual condescension... they are grander than we are and yet they are also subservient to us.
~ Jeremy Paxman
I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.
~ Jessica Park
The more primitive a man is the better he believes himself to be.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
~ Erik Satie
But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich. It had never seemed strange to me to wear sweatshirts for underwear to keep warm. It only seemed odd to rich. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She had the lovely high cheekbones for arrogance.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'essere superiore a qualcun altro. La vera nobiltà consiste nell'essere superiore a chi eravamo ieri.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But, thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The
~ Ernest Hemingway
Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know. Of course I do know. I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him. I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch--that and when he went through all that barbering. So I put the telegram in my pocket. The telegram came to me, anyway.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
~ Ernest Hemingway
People punch up," he said. "They punch the ones who are better than them. Nobody likes a kid who does something well. That
~ Ethan Canin
Probert knew, as an absolute certainty, that the British way of life and thought was by far the best on Earth. All others could only aspire to be English. Thomas was speaking nonsense – he must be.
~ Andrew Wareham
Il tempo dimostrerà chi aveva ragione. E qui sta la superiorità di chi è longevo: io ho la possibilità di verificarlo.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Victory should look thus: the defeated are compelled to buy goods manufactured by the victors. Why, they do it willingly, because the victors' goods are better and cheaper. The victors' currency is stronger than the currency of the defeated, and the vanquished trust it much more than their own. Do you understand me, Baron Fitz-Oesterlen? Are you beginning slowly to differentiate the victors from the vanquished? Do you comprehend whom woe actually betides?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
it is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself
~ Andrzej Stasiuk
Marcia was aghast. "He has shoes like mine? Well, that does it, we'll have to get rid of him." She smiled at Tod. "Only one of us can wear these shoes. And that is me.
~ Angie Sage
by a long chalk BRITISH by far.
~ Angus Stevenson