Arrogance Quotes

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

I'm Billy the Kid, the fastest draw. It's not arrogance. It's the truth.

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

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.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.