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Quotes By subject - Starting with A - Arrogance
There are 18 quotes for the subject Arrogance
Quotations 1 to 18 of 18
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Author: Sophocles
Work:  Antigone
Patriotism having become one of our topics, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Author: Mark Twain
Work:  Notebooks (1935)
For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.

Author: Sophocles
Work:  Antigone
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Author: Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Author: Aesop
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Author: Euripides
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Author: Bernard Bailey
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Author: Khalil Gibran
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Author: Albert Einstein
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Author: John Blake
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
Author: Epictetus
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Author: Joseph Addison
Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Author: Khalil Gibran
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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