“She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.” — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“Success stood in some people’s way of moving from being good to being great.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide.… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
“Men were complex enough to begin with. Give them a thousand years and they only got worse, like ever-growing labyrinths of smugness… — Sara C. Roethle Copy Share Image
Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“I flash a fake smile of my own, refraining from telling her what I'm really thinking: that it's an unwise karmic move… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Each thing has its word, but the word has become a thing by itself. Why shouldn't I find it? Why can't a… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood, — Matt Stone Copy Share Image
“I am a music snob, and proud of it. I'm a New Yorker; smugness is my birthright.” — J.J. Howard Copy Share Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel."… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball 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
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it.… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
