Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.