Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance,… — Paula Gunn Allen 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
