786 Quotes About Arrogance

I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.

Boys, tell your mother to shut her lying whore mouth before I shove the nearest apple down her throat.

—¡No te equivoques de especia, abuela: para el khuushuur, sólo comino!—¡Por quién me tomas, joven pretencioso? Por supuesto que comino.—¡Y nada de pimentón!

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

He tossed the shirt back in the keep pile. “Still has some good use left. Besides, I decide when to break it off with a T-shirt. Not the T-shirt.

I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorize in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relations; but still they cannot be equals.” (10)

One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition.

[Soetsu Yanagi's] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi's belief was that the good artist of craftsman has no personal pride because in his soul he knows that any prowess he shows is evidence of that Other Power. Therefore what Yanagi says is 'Take heed of the humble; be what you are by birthright; there is no room for arrogance'.