Quotes About Overweening

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance.

Everywhere the crisis of the private financial system has been transformed into a tale of slovenly and overweening government that perpetuates and is perpetuated by a dependent and demanding population... For about ten days the crisis was interpreted as a consequence of the ineptitude of the highly paid, and then it transmogrified into a grudge against the populace at large.

There was no point in taking issue with Marilla's overweening self-regard. It was as infinite as a starry night.

You suitors who plague my mother, you, you insolent, overweening . . .

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.