Arrogance quotes



No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. (Simone de Beauvoir)

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny. (Mark Twain)

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn’t. (Rufus Wainwright)

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages. ( Cyrano De Bergerac )

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or give, is the worst kind of arrogance. ( Anthony Beal )

None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power. (Alexander Pope )

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. ( Baron Wessenberg )

Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest. (Samuel Johnson)

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. (Albert Einstein )


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