Arrogance Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Snooty knew measly talked muchly.

Toba Beta

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.

Toba Beta

You are arrogant," says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.

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.

I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.

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

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

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.

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

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

I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true!" --Ann Newton/Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

rebecca hitchcock

At his request--a Custer request was a command impossible to refuse--I produced a series of prints for the Centennial Expedition at Philadelphia: the general with Bloody Knife, his favorite Indian scout; with the Custers' pack of eighty dogs; with his junior officers, planning the destruction of the Lakota Sioux; with Libbie in the parlor of their quarters at the fort; and the general striking a pose that would become as recognizable as Napoléon's; arms folded across his chest, looking forward and slightly upward at his magnificent destiny.

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

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

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.

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

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

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.

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?

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

Ljupka Cvetanova

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

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

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

V.S. Ramachandran

...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

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

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

Celso Cukierkorn

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

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.

Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst whom M. de Stermaria adopted the manner one has in the buffet-car of a train, grim, hurried, stand-offish, brusque, fastidious and spiteful, surrounded by other passengers whom one has never seen before, whom one will never see again and towards whom the only conceivable way of behaving is to make sure that they keep away from one's cold chicken and stay out of one's chosen corner-seat.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

Since children from dysfunctional families are so good at judging others, they also judge themselves finding themselves unacceptable when compared to others, always assuming they are second best, not enough. This is a painful realization so often they hide behind righteous arrogance.

Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

Arrogance is an illusion of superiority one perpetrates upon their self. Some may ultimately find their way through the illusion, but only after many losses.

Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion.

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

Stupidity alone can sometimes be tolerable, but when you add arrogance to the mix, you then become a stupid bitch.

Why is it that crisis pushes me to my own devices when those devices are frequently the very things that produced my crisis in the first place?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

John Dean

Boys, tell your mother to shut her lying whore mouth before I shove the nearest apple down her throat.

...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be only a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it - and not by spending as he please but by knowing how to spend it well. To the poor gentleman there is no other way of showing that he is a gentleman than by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, courteous, gentle-mannered and helpful; not haughty, arrogant or censorious, but above all by being charitable...and no one who sees him adorned with the virtues I have mentioned, will fail to recognize and judge him, though he know him not, to be of good stock.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Arrogance makes you stronger from outside, but even more weaker from inside.

Ujas Soni

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