#Arrogance Quotes

“He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.”

“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?”

“The gates of monarchsAre arched so high that giants may jet throughAnd keep their impious turbans on withoutGood morrow to the sun.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“O braggart vile and damned furious wight!”

“Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.”

“It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.”

“Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.”

“The insolence of office.”

“In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable”

“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”

“I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.”

“All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.”

“With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!”

“After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.”

“You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.”

“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”

“He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.”

“... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?”

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

“It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt”

“Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.”

“Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power.”

“Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance.”

“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.”

“He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.”

“My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.”

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

“Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.”

“The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.”

“Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power.”

“The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.”

“Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.”

“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”

“How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genuis.”

“The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air”

“Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.”

“If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.”

“It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.”

“It is often found that modesty and humility not only do no good, but are positively hurtful, when they are shown to the arrogant who have taken up a prejudice against you, either from envy or from any other cause.”

“I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.”

“Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.”

“The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.”

“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”

“It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.”

“I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me”

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

“In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.”