Arrogant famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
-- A. A. Gill -
I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.
-- Al McGuire -
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?
-- Amin Maalouf -
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
-- Andrew Sarris -
A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
-- Aphex Twin -
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
-- Arthur Boyd -
Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.
-- Barbara Cameron -
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you've ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that's life. Who isn't like that? What's the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
-- Ben Harper -
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.
-- Benjamin Britten -
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.
-- Bram Cohen -
Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.
-- Carolyn Parkhurst -
We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
-- Charles Stanley -
He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.
-- Christine Feehan -
And one more thing I want to be clear about- I know who I am. I am just a very thin layer of charming with some funny sprinkles wrapped around a huge creamy center of raging arrogant a-hole. I got it.
-- Christopher Titus -
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
-- Claude Monet -
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
-- Cynthia Voigt -
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
-- Daniel Ellsberg -
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.
-- Dannii Minogue -
Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
-- Danny Boyle -
In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.
-- David Duchovny -
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.
-- David Hume -
I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.
-- David Letterman -
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.
-- Diana Trilling -
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.
-- Edward Rutherfurd -
There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.
-- Elliott Gould -
On a quick side note, I would argue that--much like Samuel L. Jackson--I am not arrogant at all; I'm just actually really, really great.
-- Eugene Mirman -
It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.
-- Francis Chan -
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.
-- Garry Trudeau -
I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?
-- Gene Cernan -
You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
-- Gene Sharp -
Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
-- Georgette Heyer -
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
-- Ghassan Kanafani -
Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Ain't got no comparison and I ain't being arrogant.
-- Gucci Mane -
Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
-- Hamza Yusuf -
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
-- Howard Cosell -
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
-- Hugh Leonard -
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.
-- Ingrid Newkirk -
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
-- Iris Origo -
Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
-- Jack Welch -
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
-- Jeri Ryan -
Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.
-- Jim Carrey -
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
-- John Banville -
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
-- John Ensign -
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
-- John Henry Newman -
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.
-- Jonathan Frakes -
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.
-- Judge Reinhold -
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.
-- Julianne Malveaux -
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
-- Katharine Hepburn -
I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
-- Laura Anne Gilman -
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.
-- Leslie Caron -
There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?
-- Lesslie Newbigin -
What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or ***** think they know it all.
-- Lisa Gardner -
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
-- Livy -
I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.
-- Louis van Gaal -
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.
-- Lyn Nofziger -
It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
-- Margaret Deland -
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.
-- Mario Balotelli -
I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant
-- Martina Hingis -
Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.
-- Matthew Macfadyen -
Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
-- Mike Schmidt -
The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are.
-- Nelson Mandela -
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.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof -
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
-- Noel Gallagher -
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
-- Patrick Stump -
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
-- Paul Wellstone -
Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.
-- Paula Scher -
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
-- Peter Greenaway -
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
-- Philip Johnson -
Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But it hardly follows that elimination of a strong and independent press is the way to eliminate abusiveness . . .
-- Potter Stewart -
Stop being so..." "Charming?Attractive?Irresistible? "I'm going with arrogant.
-- Rachel Caine -
John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!
-- Ralph Bakshi -
if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.
-- Randy Pausch -
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
-- Ray Dalio -
Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant
-- Reuben Singh -
Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.
-- Rico Love -
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.
-- Ruben Studdard -
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.
-- Russell Crowe -
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having begun with the arrogant presumption of knowing about God all that one can, they reduce Him to manageable terms and confine Him to a tidy theological box, the dimensions of which conform to their predilections of what a god ought to be and do.
-- Sam Storms -
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
-- Samuel Richardson -
What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.
-- Selena -
The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
-- Simon Baker -
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
-- Simone de Beauvoir -
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!
-- Sister Souljah -
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
-- Steven Biko -
Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant.
-- Sun Tzu -
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
-- Sun Tzu -
You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.
-- Talib Kweli -
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.
-- Ted Danson
