Arrogant Quotes

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I was spoiled and I was arrogant. I was very demanding, had an overblown image of who I was and got a reputation for being difficult. And rightfully so.

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

Never be arrogant or abrasive. Treat your opponent respectfully if they really and truly believe they are right.

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

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

No one wants to be some guy who puts records out about how good it is. That seems quite arrogant.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties for the greater good.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

The Democrat Party and the media, they're just not educated. But they think they are, and they are smug and arrogant about what they don't know.

We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.