Overweening Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

• Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke
• Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is… — John C. Wright
• Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all. — Henry Ward Beecher
• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley
• This is the way addled liberals really think. Even as they champion sucking the brains out of little babies, they think of themselves as indelibly… — Ann Coulter
• The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is… — Grover Cleveland
• A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. — R. Kent Hughes
• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation,… — Brennan Manning
• Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people. — Alice Neel
• Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions. — Sri Aurobindo
• The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison
• When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and… — Jeffrey Kluger
• The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening… — Hunter S. Thompson
• Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete… — Albert Einstein
• The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all — Henry Ward Beecher
• Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this… — David Elkind (20th Century)

Who Wrote These Overweening Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Overweening Quotes as follows:

• 2 Overweening Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Overweening Quote by Alistair Cooke
• 1 Overweening Quote by John C. Wright
• 1 Overweening Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Overweening Quote by Ann Coulter
• 1 Overweening Quote by Grover Cleveland
• 1 Overweening Quote by R. Kent Hughes
• 1 Overweening Quote by Brennan Manning
• 1 Overweening Quote by Alice Neel
• 1 Overweening Quote by Sri Aurobindo
• 1 Overweening Quote by Ralph Ellison
• 1 Overweening Quote by Jeffrey Kluger
• 1 Overweening Quote by Hunter S. Thompson
• 1 Overweening Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Overweening Quote by David Elkind (20th Century)