Arrogance Quotes

"I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

"The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny"

"My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies"

"I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."

"If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary."

"Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised."

"Nods from the Gilded pointers --/ Nods from the Seconds slim --/ Decades of Arrogance between/ The Dial life --/ And Him --"

"The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance."

"My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water"

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

"I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me"

"A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself."

"When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."

"How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?"

"I could smell an arrogance, it was my cheap fragrance."

"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy."

"Arrogance - The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too."

"The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego."