Arrogance Quotes

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh,” Flamel said quietly. “And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie,” he added, without looking at her.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Arrogance follows distribution strength.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. All the time, we find animals doing things that, in our arrogance, we thought were just human.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.

The most fatal mistake of this Israeli military junta is that they have the complex of the arrogance of power. This is their suicidal mistake.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?