Presumptuous Quotes

58 Presumptuous quotes by 53 unique authors

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be… — Sean Parker
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people. — Patrice Leconte
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous. — Vidal Sassoon
You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven. — Edwin Land
It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels. — Joe Biden
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim… — Charles Caleb Colton
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Luc de Clapiers
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities,… — Robert Southey
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have… — L. Ron Hubbard
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct. — Walter Darby Bannard
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. — Unknown Author
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set… — Jessica Savitch
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much… — Cecelia Ahern
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins
Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good… — Paul Theroux
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. — Douglas Adams
Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay… — Flannery O'Connor
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he… — Julie Garwood
You’re presumptuous and arrogant and a whole lot of other things if you think I’ve changed my mind.” “You see, that’s just it.” There he… — Richelle Mead
There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most… — Edmund Burke
I personally feel it is presumptuous to believe that man can determine the whole temporal structure of the universe, its evolution, development and ultimate fate… — John N. Bahcall

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