arrogance

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

I was assigned to the office of a recently deceased faculty member; the office hadn't been cleaned out yet, and a few days before the fall term began, I unlocked the door to find a dirty room whose bookshelves were crammed with empty bourbon bottles and crucifixes, mute testimony to the limits of literature as a sustaining comfort in life.

She's not tsundere. She's just an unpleasant woman.

If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.

One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then.

A crushing defeat is the most humbling inoculation for arrogance.

You are arrogant," says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. _ Elizabeth Drew

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn__ have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasn__ Summer__ opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted to recoup their risky investments regardless of how doing so affected the country in which they had invested? __ummers just lost it,_ said one audience member, a business school student. __e looked at the person and said, __ou don__ know what you__e talking about and how dare you ask this question of the president of Harvard?

He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious.

Achievement is the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

arrogance is knowledge minus wisdom

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

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.