Arrogance Quotes

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

~ Emma Goldman

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

~ Patrick White

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

~ Celso Cukierkorn

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

~ Ambrose Bierce

...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn’t have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasn’t Summer’s opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted to recoup their risky investments regardless of how doing so affected the country in which they had invested? “Summers just lost it,” said one audience member, a business school student. “he looked at the person and said, “you don’t know what you’re talking about and how dare you ask this question of the president of Harvard?

~ Richard Bradley

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

~ V.s. Ramachandran

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

~ Eric Reynolds

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

~ Rick Perlstein

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger.

~ Toba Beta

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

~ Edmund Burke

Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.

~ Toba Beta

In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

~ William Hazlitt

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

~ Simon Le Bon

You'll need to do a better job, Annabelle. No more dates like the first one tonight.Agreed. And no more making me sit through your Power Matches introductions, either. As you so wisely pointed out, helping Portia Powers isn't in my best interests.Then why are you still trying to talk me into seeing Melanie again?Hunger makes me weird.You got rid of the last one in fourteen minutes. Well done. I'm rewarding you by letting you sit in on all the introductions from now on.She nearly choked on an ice cube. What are you talking about?Exactly what I said.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Arrogant people beat each other.

~ Toba Beta

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

~ Terry Pratchett

If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.

~ Toba Beta

I can be an arrogant people If I have to, or when the situation demands me to act so.It is one way for me to make arrogance useful.So if I know not people well, I don't judge them.

~ Toba Beta

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

~ John Irving

Arrogance is blind to the stumbling block.

~ Toba Beta

I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance.

~ Toba Beta

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

~ Georgette Heyer

How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?

~ C.r. Strahan

Oh, Gods.His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. The name's William. It's a common mistake.

~ Ilona Andrews

The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold. The gentleman's lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. And the Duke is right and correct in this as in all things....some very beautiful tapestries line the walls, but many of them are also full of holes. Perhaps the Duke has decreed that there are no moths, either.

~ Christopher Peter Grey

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

~ Frank O'connor

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

~ Toba Beta

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.

~ Toba Beta

There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that's what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and the bone and blood of another's being are insubstantial as breath.

~ Kelly Cherry

I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.

~ Wataru Watari

I love it when you stare at me but my arrogance is entirely your fault.

~ Brent M. Jones

Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.

~ Luigina Sgarro

The attitude that psychologists call inflation and the traditional lore of Cabalistic magic, borrowing a term from religion, calls spiritual pride is one of the most serious dangers of this work.Those who enter the path of magic with too great an appetite for flattery or too strong a need for ego reinforcement will very likely find these things, but they are also rather too likely to find fanaticism, megalomania and mental breakdown along the same route. The thing has happened far too often in the history of magic in the West.

~ John Michael Greer

O Indra, destroy all those lustful peoplebehaving like birds....angry onesbehaving like wolves....greedy onesbehaving like vultures....enticed ones behaving like owls..... arrogant ones behaivng like eagles and the jealous ones behaving like dogs.

~ Veda

Arrogance is believing only you're Right, Ignorance is believing only you're Wrong. Be Neither!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.

~ Dexter Palmer

She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman.

~ Wataru Watari

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

~ Margo Kelly