Arrogance proverbs

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◆ Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

- Ann Landers99

◆ He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

- Julian Barnes99

◆ I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.

- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali99

◆ You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.

- George Clooney99

◆ Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

- Coco Chanel99

◆ There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

- Frank Lloyd Wright99