Superiority Quotes

397 Superiority quotes by 314 unique authors

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter. — Bill Vaughan
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies… — Bill Vaughan
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy… — Gore Vidal
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. — Stephen Jay Gould
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. — Mary Douglas
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his… — Arthur Erickson
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. — Sydney J. Harris
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. — Henry James
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring… — Samuel Johnson
I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority… — Charles Krauthammer
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of… — Charles Kuralt
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. — Lawrence G. Lovasik
I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority… — David Mamet
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. — Ashley Montagu
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? — Rudolf Nureyev
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette… — Camille Paglia
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. — John D. Rockefeller
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. — Henry Rollins
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over… — George Washington
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. — Jeanette Winterson

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