Arrogance Quotes
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It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. (Quote by - Edgar Z. Friedenberg)
He is accused of being arrogant, unable to cope with the press and a boozer. Sounds like he's got a chance to me. (Quote by - George Best)
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I don't mean to be arrogant, but if we're executing our skills there's not a side that can get close to us. (Quote by - Matthew Hayden)
Players are not going to say sorry because, by their nature, they believe in themselves. I think they are quite arrogant people. They will blame everybody but themselves (Quote by - David Sullivan)
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. (Quote by - James Michener)
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
It is arrogance to expect that life will always be music.... Harmony, like a following breeze at sea, is the exception. In a world where most things wind up broken or lost, our lot is to tack and tune. (Quote by - Harvey Oxenhorn)
Despite the fact that he is a great champion, he is very arrogant. He does certain spiteful things on the pitch. (Quote by - David Pizarro)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. (Quote by - George Santayana)
We have top players and, sorry if I'm arrogant, we have a top manager. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
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. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you [expletive] options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't [expletive] call.' (Quote by - Russell Crowe)
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. (Quote by - Benoit Mandelbrot)
Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them. (Quote by - Laura Teresa Marquez)
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. (Quote by - Catherine Drinker Bowen)
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
It would be certainly arrogant of me to claim that the show was not a good show without myself at the centre. (Quote by - Michael Shanks)
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography. (Quote by - Thomas Haecker)
Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like. (Quote by - Sourav Ganguly)
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
I am definitely not scared of Mike Tyson. I am at the top of the food chain and he is looking to knock me off. Mike's an arrogant imbecile. He sounds like a cartoon character. (Quote by - Lennox Lewis)
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for. (Quote by - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
Arrogance diminishes wisdom. (Quote by - Arabian Proverb)
Of course I believe in aliens. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe? (Quote by - Tom Cruise)
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me (Quote by - J K Rowling)
The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races. (Quote by - Ruth Benedict)
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. (Quote by - Marya Mannes)
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. (Quote by - Sydney Harris)
Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. (Quote by - Baron Wessenberg)
Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency. (Quote by - Morley Safer)
I'm still struggling to deal with what I actually did wrong. To be perfectly honest, he's arrogant, and he lost the match today and he's looking for every excuse in the book. He's a sore loser. (Quote by - Lleyton Hewitt)
When men are most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have then given views to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities (Quote by - David Hume)
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. (Quote by - Henry S. Canby)
