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Superiority Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
- 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…
- Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so,…
- Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
More Superiority Quotes
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has… — Simone de Beauvoir
- A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving… — Alfred Adler
- One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. — Van Wyck Brooks
- Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we… — Samuel Butler
- Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't… — Lord Byron
- Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not… — William Ellery Channing
- She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was… — John Henrik Clarke
- The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. — Leonard Cohen
- The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin
- Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is… — Unknown Author