Arrogance Quote by Goldwin Smith Download Open image “The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.” — Goldwin Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arrogance Arrogance English Character Character Commonplace Commonplace Commonplace Joke English Insular Arrogance Jokes
The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. — Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it. — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. — Bjork Copy Share Image
The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.' — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
What you see of me on TV and all of that, that is me - that's truly how I feel. I'm just multiplying it.… — Baron Corbin Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never mistake someones quietness for their arrogance as you can surely miss out on an awsome personality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind.” — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker, if you're… — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
Closed some doors, not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere. — Frenz Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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