Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“You have to admire such arrogance, it must have taken years to cultivate.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The moment when you are sure you cant lose what you own, is exactly the moment when you start losing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest kings?” My smile widened. “That’s it? Why not the greatest?” “This will only make your arrogance worse, I’m… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
The U.S.A. have a 'football arrogance,' which means winning is in their DNA - nothing else is good enough. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
“Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors;… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
“Prayer is arrogance,’ intoned Jubair. ‘The hope of man to change the will of God. But God’s plan is set and His… — Joe Ambercrombie Copy Share Image
“At sixteen, he was cursed with all the certainty of youth, unleavened by any trace of humor or self-doubt, and wed to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Beauty! Art! Wit! Wonderment! Humility! Arrogance! Style! Virtue! Decency! Patience! And all the others, Gone, trampled by the Newly-polished jack boots Of… — Alec Wilder Copy Share Image
“The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image
In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“That villainous crew- greed, infatuation, jealousy, arrogance, and pride haunts the mind only so long as the Divine does not take up… — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
A truly blind person is not one who cannot see but one who chooses not to. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never be too pompous to take simple advice. For ignorance will be your demise. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
If you had all the money in the world you still can never buy Loyalty its priceless — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. — George Eliot Copy Share Image