Quotes about Arrogance
And the things which conduce in any way to the commodity of life, and of which fortune gives an abundant supply, he [my father] used without arrogance and without excusing himself; so that when he had them, he enjoyed them without affectation, and when he had them not, he did not want them.
— Marcus Aurelius
There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility.
— Marcus Aurelius
In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
— Margaret Atwood
Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!
— Anne Frank
The first reason is their majesty and their associated arrogance (Is 13:11, 19), which fits with the earlier critique of Assyria and of Judah itself (cf. also Is 16:6).
— John Goldingay
I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
— George Bernard Shaw
We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.
— George Eliot
We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.
— Aristotle
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.
— John Quincy Adams
Envy is the offspring of pride,
— Ellen White
The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.
— Ellen White
Censorship is the height of vanity.
— Martha Graham