Arrogance Quotes - Page 5

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

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled from it, not opposed seduction. But the day of Trial will arrive! Oh! then when you yield to impetuous passions! when you feel that Man is weak, and born to err; When shuddering you look back upon your crimes, and solicit with terror the mercy of your God, Oh! in that fearful moment think upon me! Think upon your Cruelty! Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon!

People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.

Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

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.

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

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

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.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

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

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

Forgive me, madam," he said lightly, amused, "but waiting to make love to you again is straining my nerves." She scoffed but she was quite shaken; he could see it in her expression, in the way she nervously toyed with the buttons on her pelisse."How awfully presumptuous of you to think I'd let you.""You will," he insisted soothingly.She gaped at him."Please continue," he urged. "I'm aching to hear the rest.""You're as arrogant as usual.""You missed it, though.""I absolutely did not," she asserted.He grinned. "You missed my arrogance almost as much as I missed your impudence, little one.""That's absurd.""I love you, Caroline," he softly, quickly replied, catching her off guard with such tenderness. "Move on before I decide I'm finished with this conversation, rip off your clothes, and show you how much.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

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

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

Rights’ are ‘privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both.

Humility moves more mountains than arrogance.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

Someone else deciding what was too dangerous for me to be involved in or pursue had never stopped me yet.

Many folks describe arrogant people as jerks, idiots, creeps, and much worse. A person that treats you like you are stupid and says the only right way is their way – even when it clearly is not – is arrogant. They try to make up for their own lack of confidence by hammering away at others.

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.

Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.

Kissinger would probably be outraged even if he reread his own memoirs, on the grounds that they are not favorable enough.

Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?

What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

I can arrogantly brag that the doors I choose in life open wide and grant me unobstructed passage. But the widest doors tend to lead to the worst places.

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you.

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.

At the point that it dawns on me that I am not God I have finally made room for God.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

If the truth gets in the way, I will remove it. But truth be told, removing the truth never removes the truth.

My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.

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