"The insular arrogance of the English character is……" — Goldwin Smith
"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."
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32 Quotes by Goldwin Smith
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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
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The father of confederation is deadlock.
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We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other…
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Above all nations is humanity,
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Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into…
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Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
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There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and…
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Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly…
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The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to…
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The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual…
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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist…
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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was…
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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in…
— Eric Bana
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
— Joe Biden
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All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong.…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness…
— Alain de Botton
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It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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