Arrogance quotations

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◆ It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

- Anatole France99

◆ Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ I'm not a snob. Ask anybody. Well, anybody who matters.

- Simon Le Bon99

◆ People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

- Vanna Bonta99

◆ He grinned, and right then it occurred to him that he hadn't enjoyed himself so much with a woman in a very long time. If Annabelle Granger were a few inches taller, a hell of a lot more sophisticated, better organized, less bossy, and more inclined to worship at his feet, she'd have made a perfect wife.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips99

◆ Without humor, we'd all be what we're laughing at. Without arrogance, we'd be humiliated to admit we already are.

- Bauvard99

◆ Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.

- Robert G. Ingersoll99

◆ When you think yours is the only true path you forever chain yourself to judging others and narrow the vision of God. The road to righteousness and arrogance is a parallel road that can intersect each other several times throughout a person's life. It's often hard to recognize one road from another. What makes them different is the road to righteousness is paved with the love of humanity. The road to arrogance is paved with the love of self.

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.

- Toba Beta99

◆ Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ Pride is the mother of arrogance.

- Toba Beta99

◆ In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

- William Hazlitt99