Arrogance Quotes
545 quotes by 458 authors
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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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…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
— Edmund Burke
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
— Samuel Butler
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
— Taylor Caldwell
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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
— Albert Camus
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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate…
— Graydon Carter
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,…
— Willa Cather
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
— Nick Clegg
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Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
— Sun Tzu
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