The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the…

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

— C. JoyBell C

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

— Marco Pierre White

A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life,…

— Jeremy Collier

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You,…

— Saint Augustine

She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at…

— Robert Southey

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and…

— Mark Twain

The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem…

— Samuel Johnson

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad…

— Charles Loring Brace

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can…

— Jane Austen

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search…

— Francis Bacon

“impersonal, slowly swelling movement”

— Timothy Francis Leary

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs…

— William Shakespeare

“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his…

— Christina Engela