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Arrogance Quotes

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

– Chen Shui-bian

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.

– Franz Grillparzer

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

– David Geffen

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

– Nick Clegg

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.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

There’s a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

– Mary Steenburgen

Whenever I go out with a girl for a meal, I’m recognised, and I hear, ‘That’s Chad’s girl,’ before anyone even approaches for a picture. I can’t take arrogance and rude behaviour, and I really get a lot of it.

– Chad le Clos

I’m in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God’s terms. My God isn’t the God of George Bush.

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can’t do it in five minutes. You can’t listen to ‘The Rite of Spring’ once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

– Penn Jillette

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

– Mike Gallagher

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don’t have it. Maybe it’s my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don’t have it.

– Paul Mooney

What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that’s always been the case. There’s a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.

– LL Cool J

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

– Knute Nelson

Sometimes it’s difficult to accept, to recognise one’s own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

– Mikhail Gorbachev

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.

– LeRoy Neiman

I did a show called ‘Freaks and Geeks’ when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn’t matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I’m about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment.

– Jason Segel

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

– Kim Weston

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It’s collegiate. There’s not much politics, and we like decent people. We don’t like arrogance or bullies.

– Jim Ratcliffe

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

– Joely Richardson

Beyond its romance, ‘Titanic’ offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It’s the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy – the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias – so easily to mind.

– Janet Maslin

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

– Ross Perot

Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.

– Randy Pausch

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

– Samuel Butler

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.

– Rowan Atkinson

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

– Ralph G. Neas

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

– Reed Hastings

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that’s fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

– Steffi Graf

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

– Sun Tzu

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

– Trevor Nunn

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

– Simon Baker

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