Pierre Beaumarchais Quotes

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

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.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

One may be humble out of pride.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.